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mcveat
mcveat

Reputation: 1416

Best practice of implementing a webservice client in rails application

In situation, when I need a webservice client, which will be used by some action controllers, how should it be implemented? As it will have some constant values (addres, parameters names) and session key, refreshed every 30 minutes, I guess model stored in database isn't the best solution. What is the best practice?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1088

Answers (2)

Keltia
Keltia

Reputation: 14743

Rails 1.x used to have "actionwebservices" builtin but it has been removed from Rails 2.x. The last time I did this was to build an SSO server implemented as classes using XML-RPC. The code is not public unfortunately (done internally for my employer) but was under 1k LOC incl. comments... Plain Ruby.

Now, I'd probably use a lightweight framework like Sinatra or an equivalent.

Upvotes: -1

mwilliams
mwilliams

Reputation: 9978

Built the web service consumer as a library and place it in your /lib directory.

I would also recommend HTTParty for very simple consumption of web services. You could easily build a library to handle the task, a simple class with a few methods and toss it in your /lib directory and be on your way.

Good luck!

Upvotes: 2

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