Ed Summers wrote a Ruby library for accessing SRU:

http://sru.rubyforge.org/

Are you just trying SRU? Or do you support SRU over SOAP?

sruby only supports the former.

-Ross.

On Dec 12, 2007 7:19 PM, Chick Markley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I've added an SRU explain and searchRetrieve to our project website
> www.dlfaquifer.org/sru
> I need a client to verify it works, what's the simplest way to do that.
> I've tried using yaz-client as described at
> http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/doc/zoom.tkl, i.e. using either
> sru=get,http://www.dlfaquifer.org/sru and/or sru=get at the command prompt.
> but the version is wrong on the mac port distribution :-(
> and doesn't seem to have the effect I expect on the windows version. It
> still complains about missing
> soap envelope.
> Hopefully I'm missing something obvious and I am trying to get off easy by
> just doing
> SRU and not SRW right now.
> Any thoughts appreciated
> -chick
>
> Chick Markley
> Software Architect - Aquifer Project
> Digital Library Federation
>
>