Non-rails possible?

[mistergibson]

Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to use actionwebservice outside of a rails framework context - sort of on its own. Your thoughts?

[reagent]

It's probably best to use the XMLRPC library directly in this instance (and even if you're building a Rails app that responds to XMLRPC calls). I converted my blog software from Rails to Sinatra and had to do away with actionwebservice in the process. Once I discovered XMLRPC::Marshal.load_call and XMLRPC::Marshal.dump_response things went pretty quickly. You can see some example code here: http://github.com/reagent/blurt/blob/master/lib/blurt/request_handler.rb

[mistergibson]

Hrm well,

I'll need to do a full soap thing. I really like actionwebservice, I'm just curious if it is even possible to cobble together something that is close enough to an actionController to work with it (outside of rails). Not in your experience eh?

[mistergibson]

Know of any plans to let actionwebservice run as a standalone library?

[mistergibson]

Any ideas on getting ActionWebService::Base running in a rack server?

[reagent]

I haven't played with the SOAP portion of AWS, so I'm not sure how much work would be involved in creating a DSL for a SOAP endpoint. It looks like this repo hasn't been maintained in a while (I'm not the maintainer), so maybe checking in on some of the other forks is a good idea.