Ruby SAVON gem errors in making request - ruby

Question

I'm trying to make what appears to be a pretty straight forward SOAP request, one that works in SoapUI but when I execute my Ruby code, I get a 'raise_soap_and_http_errors!' Exception executing request.
Here's the code - the document referenced in wsdl_path works in SOAPUI to make the authenticate request.
require 'savon'
wsdl_path = 'XXXX_soap_interface.wsdl'
client = Savon.client(
:wsdl => wsdl_path,
:ssl_verify_mode => :none,
:raise_errors => true, # false if you don't want to see exceptions
pretty_print_xml: true)
response = client.call(
:authenticate,
message: {:partnerName => 'XXXX', :userName => 'xxxxxx', :password => 'xxxxx'}
)
puts response
The error I get back is:
savon/response.rb:85:in `raise_soap_and_http_errors!': (SOAP-
ENV:Server) Exception executing request (Savon::SOAPFault)
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/savon-2.4.0/lib/savon/response.rb:14:in `initialize'
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/savon-2.4.0/lib/savon/operation.rb:64:in `new'
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/savon-2.4.0/lib/savon/operation.rb:64:in `create_response'
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/savon-2.4.0/lib/savon/operation.rb:55:in `call'
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/savon-2.4.0/lib/savon/client.rb:36:in `call'
from xxx_soap.rb:15:in `<main>'
I'm running Ruby 1.9, anyone have any ideas on what would make this work?
edit: The wsdl_path variable, when used to create the Savon client, works. I'm able to create the client and also execute client.operations and successfully get back the operations from the SOAP service. Only the request is failing.
edit: After adding the helpful logging code from below, I am getting this back:
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:common="urn:xxx-com:cloud:common"
xmlns:finsvc="urn:xxx-com:cloud:finsvc"
xmlns:finsvc-13-6-0="urn:xxx-com:cloud:finsvc:13.6.0">
<SOAP-ENV:Body SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<SOAP-ENV:Fault>
<faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Server</faultcode>
<faultstring>Exception executing request</faultstring>
<detail>
<operationResult>
<errorCode>101</errorCode>
<errorMessage>SOAP error 44 (SOAP 1.1 fault: SOAP-ENV:Client [no subcode] "Validation constraint violation: occurrence v
iolation in element 'userName'" Detail: [no detail] )</errorMessage>
</operationResult>
</detail>
</SOAP-ENV:Fault>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
No matter what order I put the parameters in or if I use camelcase or not, the first parameter specified in message throws the above error.

Answer 1

Switch on logging with
client = Savon.client(
...
log: true,
loglevel: :debug,
pretty_print_xml: true)
and share the output if you can't find the problem.
If the problem still exists then you should go the standard way:
Get SoapUI
create a valid call which you can execute successfully
based on that - write a Ruby script (not Ruby on Rails!!) which creates a valid request
integrate that code into your Rails (or whatever project).

Answer 2

So this all turned out to be issues in the wsdl document where fields that were required were not stated as so, but the response from the service did not reveal this.

Answer 3

wsdl_path should be a full URL, like http://domain.name/.../soap.wsdl.