soap4r is Evil! Part 2

Paul Haddad — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:54:00 -0700

So more time wasted on this gem. Turns out my previous fix didn't work with the console. The problem is console doesn't seem to load in the boot.rb on startup, at least the irb process doesn't. Fortunately I was able to come up with a better fix that doesn't depend on modifying boot.rb in anyway.

# this is here for bug http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/ticket/433#comment:6
 require 'rubygems'
 RAILS_ROOT = "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/.." unless defined?(RAILS_ROOT)
 Gem.path << "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/gems"
 Gem.source_index.refresh!
 gem 'soap4r'
# done with hack for http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/ticket/433#comment:6

The idea here is pretty much the same as before, the only real difference is the refresh! call which causes the gems to be re-looked at. The RAILS_ROOT bit is just there because since console doesn't call boot.rb it won't be defined otherwise.

One more issue I ran into is that on a newly installed machine I didn't have the httpclient gem installed. So just made sure that was added in my vendors/gems directory and all is good.

Paul On Rails: soap4r is Evil! Part 2

soap4r is Evil! Part 2