ActionWebService and Rails 2.0

Well looks like I have to take on supporting this for my BioRails project. Afraid on the client side we are making heavy use of .NET generated client code generated from the WSDL. This is used for the Microsoft office client integration is isn't going to become restful soon. Also have clients using the same historic interface so ended up picking up AWS porting to 2.0.

To install the plugin the following should work:-

script/server plugin http://biorails.org/svn/biorails/plugins/action_web_services

At present all I can say is it passes our in-house test suite for the web services I want. Beyond that I have not had time to go. Had to do a few minor changes to get invoke to work, fully made it display calls sorted by name which have been meaning to do for ages.

Maybe for online services could keep few mongrels up with 1.2.6 dedicated to web service requests after move to 2.0. But as we distributing a software package instead of a service this would be hard on customers.

Basic changes are setting the gem dependencies to allow for use with Rails 2.0

gem 'activesupport', '>= 1.0.2'
gem 'actionpack', '>= 1.6.0'
gem 'activerecord', '>= 1.9.0'

Then the removal for include Reloadable::Deprecated from the code base. This appears to have worked for me. I expect there to be a similar gem soon. Then a number of conversions of render_file to render :text => content in the scaffold code.

Its now back to working on 2.0.1 with my .net client usage pattern. In fact working really well on client side as collections of simple data objects is a common pattern for .net and works well for building the client UI.