Ruby soap4r wsdl2ruby.rb errors

Question

I am trying to run the wsdl2ruby.rb script that comes with the soap4r gem, and get the following errors:

[ral@lap etc]$ ruby /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/bin/wsdl2ruby.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/lib/xsd/charset.rb:13: warning: variable $KCODE is no longer effective
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/lib/soap/property.rb:68: warning: encoding option is ignored - u
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/lib/soap/property.rb:69: warning: encoding option is ignored - u
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/lib/soap/property.rb:70: warning: encoding option is ignored - u
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/lib/xsd/xmlparser.rb:74:in `<top (required)>': XML processor module not found. (RuntimeError)
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/lib/wsdl/xmlSchema/parser.rb:13:in `<top (required)>'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/lib/wsdl/xmlSchema/importer.rb:11:in `<top (required)>'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/lib/wsdl/importer.rb:9:in `<top (required)>'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/lib/wsdl/soap/wsdl2ruby.rb:11:in `<top (required)>'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:33:in `require'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:33:in `rescue in require'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/bin/wsdl2ruby.rb:5:in `<main>'

I have the following gems installed:

httpclient (2.2.0.1) minitest (1.6.0) rake (0.8.7) rdoc (2.5.8) soap4r (1.5.8)

I have tried to install the xml parser gem which fails with loads of errors: http://pastie.org/1822127

Does anyone know what the problem is? This is my first time touching Ruby.

Is soap4r the best tool for the job for making a SOAP webservice client?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

The answer posted at

http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=41231

worked for me. That is, I edited the file rubyhome/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/lib/xsd/xmlparser.rb and changed line 66 from:

  c.downcase == name

to

  c.to_s.downcase == name

and the problem appears to be solved.