rujmah’s Dis-Collected Thoughts

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• brainstorming - alone, in a team or with clients,
• planning - business, documents, presentations, this blog, and
• completeness - strategy & problem-solving.

As an avid user of Freemind I love this post.

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HOWTO Use Ruby SOAP4R

You can install soap4r with rubygems.

% gem install soap4r

You need to add 'gem' declaration at the top of your program because soap4r is already included in normal ruby installation. With 'gem' declaration, you can override the priority.

require 'rubygems'
gem 'soap4r'
require 'soap/rpc/driver' # and so on

In Rails environment, you need to add 'gem' declaration *at the top of* config/environment.rb of your project.

For gem update:

% gem update soap4r

Important to remember when using soap4R!!!

SOAP4R is a Ruby library for accessing Web Services via SOAP

Mark Thomas's guide to getting started with the SOAP4r gem.

When Lars Rasmussen first floated the idea, Google co-founder Sergey Brin wasn't impressed. "He came to me and he said 'This may sound kinda crazy, but we're going to reinvent communication and we just need a bunch of engineers to go of to Australia for a while and we'll get back to you after a couple of years,'" Brin remembers. "It was not a very compelling proposal.