I am trying out Soap4R, and I’ve discovered (as usual) a few hangups along the way.   I played with the self-generating WSDL, but it was difficult to see what was going on, so I used wsdl2ruby.rb to build my classes.

First – I started with a test, that’s one of the ways I like to learn a new service.  I ran into the following problem:

OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: certificate verify failed

To get around that, in my environment.rb (near the top), and also in my test class I add:

require "rubygems"
gem "soap4r"
require "soap/mapping"

I continue to have certificate errors, but I’m not surprised, because I’m using HTTPS against an unsigned certificate. So after I create my driver, I do:

  driver = IDStore.new
  driver.options["protocol.http.ssl_config.verify_mode"] = "OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE"

And now the errors I get seem to be more-or-less related to the task at hand

Let’s say you have two domain objects/models – Feet and Toes.

Obviously, in general a Foot hasMany toes

and obviously (at least we hope) a toe belongsTo a foot.

So given this, if you, say, changed the color of the toenail on a toe, you would expect to then do a toe.save(), right?

WRONG!   You get this crazy _backRef exception and you’re dead in the water.

Instead, what you have to do is save the Foot, and it cascades down and saves the toe.

*boggle*

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-3783

Never ever use @template to refer to a model or object in your project !!!!!

Rails uses this name internally to track the ERb &| HAML templates, and it gets horribly confused. You get errors like:

undefined method `view_paths' for #

and

undefined method `render' for #


Save yourself some time and listen to me

If you’re trying to set up pdf-writer as a config.gem instruction, the obvious approach doesn’t work, at all. instead, do this


config.gem "pdf-writer", :lib => "pdf/writer", :version => "1.1.8"


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