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====== Ruby ======

===== Web Services Tool-kits =====

There are many modules available for developing Web Services clients or servers available for Ruby ((Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang.org/)). These fall into two broad categories:
  - General purpose modules which implement Web Services technologies (i.e. REST or SOAP)
  - Service libraries which implement the client and/or server interface for a service type (e.g. OpenSearch ((OpenSearch - http://www.opensearch.org/))) 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     | [[http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/httpclient/|httpclient]] (formerly known as [[http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/http-access2/|http-access2]]) |
|          | [[http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html|net/http]] |
|          | [[http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/index.html|open-uri]] |
|          | [[http://toland.github.com/patron/|Patron]] |
|          | [[http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2008/3/9/rest_client/|rest-client]] |
| SOAP     | [[http://github.com/unwire/handsoap/|Handsoap]] |
|          | [[http://savon.rubiii.com/|Savon]] |
|          | [[http://github.com/jeremydurham/serviceproxy|ServiceProxy]] |
|          | [[http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r|soap4r]] |

==== Client Libraries ====

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

^ Web Service Type ^ Ruby Library ^
| [[http://www.opensearch.org/|OpenSearch]] | [[http://opensearch.rubyforge.org/|Ruby/OpenSearch]] |

==== BioRuby ====

[[http://www.bioruby.org/|BioRuby]] includes support for a number of bioinformatics Web Services, for example:

^ Web Service ^ BioRuby Module ^
| [[http://biodas.org/|DAS]] | [[http://bioruby.open-bio.org/rdoc/classes/Bio/DAS.html|Bio::DAS]] |
| [[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dbfetch|dbfetch]] | [[http://bioruby.open-bio.org/rdoc/classes/Bio/Fetch.html|Bio::Fetch]] |
| [[http://xml.nig.ac.jp/|DDBJ  Web API for Biology]] | [[http://bioruby.open-bio.org/rdoc/classes/Bio/Blast/Remote/DDBJ.html|Bio::Blast::Remote::DDBJ]] |
|  | [[http://bioruby.open-bio.org/rdoc/classes/Bio/DDBJ/XML.html|Bio::DDBJ::XML]] |
| [[:|EMBL-EBI]] | [[http://bioruby.open-bio.org/rdoc/classes/Bio/EBI/SOAP.html|Bio::EBI::SOAP]] |
| [[http://www.ensembl.org/|Ensembl]] | [[http://bioruby.open-bio.org/rdoc/classes/Bio/Ensembl.html|Bio::Ensembl]] | 
| [[http://www.genome.jp/|GenomeNet]] | [[http://bioruby.open-bio.org/rdoc/classes/Bio/Blast/Remote/GenomeNet.html|Bio::Blast::Remote::GenomeNet]] |
|  | [[http://bioruby.open-bio.org/rdoc/classes/Bio/DBGET.html|Bio::DBGET]] |
| [[http://www.genome.jp/kegg/soap/|KEGG API]] | [[http://bioruby.open-bio.org/rdoc/classes/Bio/KEGG/API.html|Bio::KEGG::API]] |
| [[http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/|NCBI E-Utilities]] | [[http://bioruby.open-bio.org/rdoc/classes/Bio/NCBI.html|Bio::NCBI]] |
|  | [[http://bioruby.open-bio.org/rdoc/classes/Bio/PubMed.html|Bio::PubMed]] |
| Open Biological Database Access (OBDA) ((Open Biological Database Access - http://obda.open-bio.org/)) | [[http://bioruby.open-bio.org/rdoc/classes/Bio/Registry.html|Bio::Registry]] ((http://bioruby.open-bio.org/wiki/Tutorial#OBDA)) |

===== Tutorials =====

==== Prerequisites ====

Knowledge of the following is required for these tutorials:
  * [[http://www.ruby-lang.org/|Ruby]]
  * Extensible Markup Language (XML) ((Extensible Markup Language (XML) - http://www.w3.org/XML/))
    * [[http://www.w3schools.com/xml/|XML Tutorial]] from w3schools.com
  * XML Schema ((XML Schema - http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema))
    * [[http://www.w3schools.com/schema/|XML Schema Tutorial]] from w3schools.com

==== Web Services Tutorials ====

Tutorials on using a selection of popular Ruby libraries to develop clients for Web Services:
  * REST
    * [[.:Ruby:REST:net_http|net/http]]
  * SOAP
    * [[.:Ruby:SOAP:soap4r]]

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