Savon Gem Configuration

gistfile1.rb

#In your gemfile add:
gem 'savon', '~>2.0'

#In your model (or service; whatever is appropriate for your app):
def self.get_response(method, message)
  client = Savon.client(
        wsdl: 'https://Your-WSDL-URL.com/service.wsdl',
        
        #This is optional. I needed it to send credentials with custom xml. Custom XML will be nested in the <header></header> tags.
        soap_header: '<custom-xml-header></custom-xml-header>',
        
        #you can change the namespace to be more specific.
        namespace_identifier: :my_namespace, 
        
        #element_for_default: adds or removes the namespace from the body of your message. :unqualified removes the namespace, :qualified adds the namespace.
        #This was the tricky part for me. Savon tries to guess what your WSDL requires. If the body was qualified, and it shouldn't be, I would get an error.
        element_form_default: :unqualified, 
        
        #Turns out, the WSDL your using can be picky about the environment namespace (typically :env).
        env_namespace: :my_env,
        # I wanted to suppress logging to keep the credentials I am sending in plain text secure.
        log: false
    )
    # You an use these to log xml in a readable format.
    # client.globals.pretty_print_xml true
    # client.globals.log true
    
    #"method.to_sym", savon accepts the WSDL method you are using as a symbol underscored. It defaults to converting it to camelcasing.
    #":message => message". The message variable contains a message formed as a hash {"XML_TAG_NAME" => "Text Content"}
    response = client.call(method.to_sym, :message => message)
    return response
end