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>12. Using XML-RPC with Ruby</A
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>(This section of the XML-RPC HOWTO was generously
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provided by Michael Neumann.)</EM
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object-oriented scripting language. It already has a major following in
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Japan, and it's becoming popular elsewhere.</P
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>To use XML-RPC with Ruby, you must first install Yoshida Masato's
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xmlparser module (a wrapper for James Clark's expat parser). This can
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be found at the <A
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Application Archive</A
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>xmlrpc4r</A
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using the following commands:</P
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>bash$ tar -xvzf xmlrpc4r-1_2.tar.gz
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bash$ cd xmlrpc4r-1_2
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bash$ su root -c "ruby install.rb"</PRE
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>12.1. A Ruby Client</A
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>Here's a simple Ruby client:</P
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>require "xmlrpc/client"
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# Make an object to represent the XML-RPC server.
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server = XMLRPC::Client.new( "xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net", "/api/sample.php")
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# Call the remote server and get our result
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result = server.call("sample.sumAndDifference", 5, 3)
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sum = result["sum"]
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difference = result["difference"]
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puts "Sum: #{sum}, Difference: #{difference}"</PRE
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>12.2. A Ruby Server</A
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>Here's a simple Ruby server:</P
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>require "xmlrpc/server"
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s = XMLRPC::CGIServer.new
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s.add_hanlder("sample.sumAndDifference") do |a,b|
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{ "sum" => a + b, "difference" => a - b }
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end
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s.serve</PRE
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>This could also have been written as follows:</P
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>require "xmlrpc/server"
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s = XMLRPC::CGIServer.new
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class MyHandler
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def sumAndDifference(a, b)
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{ "sum" => a + b, "difference" => a - b }
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end
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end
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s.add_handler("sample", MyHandler.new)
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s.serve</PRE
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>s = XMLRPC::Server.new(8080)</PRE
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