If you’re a Ruby/Google user and recently discovered that the library had stopped working, you’ll probably be interested in this patch to version 0.5.1 that fixes things. It appears that Google made some silent changes at their end, probably to the WSDL file that they use. This caused Ruby/Google to fail.
I would release a new version of the software containing the patch, but since my computers (including my CVS repository) are currently in the hold of a ship somewhere on the mid-Atlantic, I’m unable to issue a new release of the software for the time being.
Thank you for the patch. Yes the server implementation seems to decide to observe nillable specification of XML Schema.
And for users who need to use non-ascii(UTF-8 encoded) chars: You need to use the newer version of soap4r. It will be bundled with ruby-1.8.3.
cf. http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/changeset/1622
http://dev.ctor.org/download/