soap client for ruby 1.9 and rails

Question

Untill now I used soap4r as my SOAP-client with Ruby 1.8.x, but now I am moving on to Ruby 1.9.x. Unfortunately soap4r doesn't work with Ruby 1.9.x I just get the "invalid multibyte escape" which seems not solvable, mostly because the soap4r gem wasn't updated since 2007, so I assume the project is dead.

I had a look at handsoap but there I have to map all the stuff by hand it will take several days to do that by hand, it is a big API.

Is there some other soap client which automaticly maps all the soap-xml stuff to ruby-objects (link soap4r did) and vise versa?

Answer 1

Savon abstracts the XML part into a Ruby Hash. Have a look: http://github.com/rubiii/savon