NET HTTP POST XML returned.. need help

dummy@example.com (the1drewharris) — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:28:26 +0000

I'm new to Ruby and to Rails. I'm trying to build an app that consumes another XML based API web service and I'm stuck. Please let me know if I am doing something wrong.I need to POST XML to a URL. When I do this, the web service that I am posting to returns XML. I need to set that XML as a Ruby object and extract the value of an attribute. So, this is what I have in my controller:

require 'net/http'

class ServersController < ApplicationController

  def index(myURL="http://myxmlserviceapi.com", myName="xuser", myPassword="foo")

    @url = myURL

    @uri = URI.parse @url

    xml_req = ""

    request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(@url)

    request.body = xml_req

    http = Net::HTTP

    #left off here need to parse the xml and look for the value of the outCookie attribute within the "xLogin" tag returned by the xLogin POST
    #sample xml returned by POST:  

      #session[myCookie=>"thisCookieValue"]

  end

end

Then, just for kicks in my index view file index.html.erb I'd like to do something like this:

<%= session[myCookie %>

Can anyone offer some advice to help me get unstuck here?

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NET HTTP POST XML returned.. need help

<%= session[myCookie %>