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Ruby

Web Services Tool-kits

There are many modules available for developing Web Services clients or servers available for Ruby 1). These fall into two broad categories:

  1. General purpose modules which implement Web Services technologies (i.e. REST or SOAP)
  2. Service libraries which implement the client and/or server interface for a service type (e.g. OpenSearch 2)) or for a specific service.

A selection of modules commonly used to access Web Services are listed below.

General Purpose

Ruby libraries which implement Web Services technologies, for example:

Web Service Style Ruby Library
REST httpclient (formerly known as http-access2)
net/http
open-uri
Patron
rest-client
SOAP Handsoap
Savon
ServiceProxy
soap4r

Client Libraries

Purpose built libraries for a type of service or a specific service, for example:

Web Service Type Ruby Library
OpenSearch Ruby/OpenSearch

BioRuby

BioRuby includes support for a number of bioinformatics Web Services, for example:

Web Service BioRuby Module
DAS Bio::DAS
dbfetch Bio::Fetch
DDBJ Web API for Biology Bio::Blast::Remote::DDBJ
Bio::DDBJ::XML
EMBL-EBI Bio::EBI::SOAP
Ensembl Bio::Ensembl
GenomeNet Bio::Blast::Remote::GenomeNet
Bio::DBGET
KEGG API Bio::KEGG::API
NCBI E-Utilities Bio::NCBI
Bio::PubMed
Open Biological Database Access (OBDA) 3) Bio::Registry 4)

Tutorials

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the following is required for these tutorials:

Web Services Tutorials

Tutorials on using a selection of popular Ruby libraries to develop clients for Web Services:


Up Programming Web Services Contents Contents
1) Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang.org/
2) OpenSearch - http://www.opensearch.org/
3) Open Biological Database Access - http://obda.open-bio.org/
4) http://bioruby.open-bio.org/wiki/Tutorial#OBDA
5) Extensible Markup Language (XML) - http://www.w3.org/XML/
6) XML Schema - http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
 
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