How to parse SOAP response from ruby client?

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Published on 2010-01-27T03:31:58Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 19:14 UTC
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Hi

I am learning Ruby and I have written the following code to find out how to consume SOAP services:

require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
wsdl="http://www.abundanttech.com/webservices/deadoralive/deadoralive.wsdl"
service=SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver
weather=service.getTodaysBirthdays('1/26/2010')

The response that I get back is:

#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac3714 
{http://www.abundanttech.com/webservices/deadoralive} getTodaysBirthdaysResult=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac34a8 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}schema=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac3214 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}element=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac2f6c 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}complexType=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac2cc4 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}choice=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac2a1c 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}element=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac2774 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}complexType=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac24cc 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}sequence=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac2224 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}element=[#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac1f7c>, 
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac13ec>, 
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac0a28>, 
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac0078>, 
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80abf6c8>, 
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80abed18>]
>>>>>>> {urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-diffgram-v1}diffgram=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80abe6c4 
{}NewDataSet=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac1220 
{}Table=[#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac75e4 
{}FullName="Cully,  Zara" 
{}BirthDate="01/26/1892" 
{}DeathDate="02/28/1979" 
{}Age="(87)" 
{}KnownFor="The Jeffersons" 
{}DeadOrAlive="Dead">, 
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80b778f4 
{}FullName="Feiffer, Jules" 
{}BirthDate="01/26/1929" 
{}DeathDate=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80c7eaf4> 
{}Age="81" 
{}KnownFor="Cartoonists" 
{}DeadOrAlive="Alive">]>>>>

I am having a great deal of difficulty figuring out how to parse and show the returned information in a nice table, or even just how to loop through the records and have access to each element (ie. FullName,Age,etc). I went through the whole "getTodaysBirthdaysResult.methods - Object.new.methods" and kept working down to try and work out how to access the elements, but then I get to the array and I got lost.

Any help that can be offered would be appreciated.

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