Question

I’m trying to use built-in XMLRPC in Ruby 1.9. Unfortunately, XMLRPC is not documented on ruby-docs.org, so i have tried to build a test code based on examples found by google:

# Server.rb
require "xmlrpc/server"
server = XMLRPC::Server.new( 1234 )
server.add_handler( "test" ) { |msg| return "responce for #{msg}" }
server.serve()

# Client.rb

require "xmlrpc/client"
server = XMLRPC::Client.new( "localhost", "/", 1234 )
server.call( "test", 42 ) == "responce for 42"

Unfortunately, this is not working on both Windows and OSX. Server.rb fails with cryptic error:

C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/xmlrpc/client.rb:414:in `call': Uncaught exception unexpected return in method test (XMLRPC::FaultException)
        from client.rb:6:in `<main>'

Maybe anyone knows what is my error?

Answer 1

Its another way with block:

#server.rb:
require "xmlrpc/server"
server = XMLRPC::Server.new( 1234 )
server.add_handler('my_test.test') { |msg|"responce for #{msg}" }

#client.rb
require "xmlrpc/client"
client = XMLRPC::Client.new( "localhost", "/", 1234 )
s = client.call('my_test.test','asd')