# savonrb/savon

Heavy metal SOAP client

Repository: https://github.com/savonrb/savon
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/savon
Homepage: https://savonrb.com
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: soap, soap-client, ruby
Last push: 2026-08-21T13:12:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 96/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 91, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6271, "days_push": 12, "days_rel": 61, "gap_med": 9, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2085, forks 611 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:11.877286+00:00)

## What it is
Savon is a SOAP client library for Ruby that reads WSDL documents, maps service operations to Ruby methods, and converts between Ruby hashes and SOAP XML envelopes. It supports HTTP basic/digest/NTLM auth, WS-Security, logging, and pluggable HTTP transports.

## Use cases
- call SOAP web services from Ruby
- integrate with enterprise systems that expose a WSDL
- consume SOAP APIs with WS-Security authentication
- convert Ruby hashes to SOAP requests and parse XML responses
- debug SOAP envelopes with request/response logging
- mock SOAP calls in tests

## When to choose
- you need to talk to a legacy or enterprise SOAP service from Ruby
- you have a WSDL URL or file and want operations discovered automatically
- you need WS-Security, NTLM, or certificate-based SOAP authentication

## When to avoid
- the service offers a REST API instead of SOAP
- you need a SOAP server rather than a client
- you are not working in Ruby

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: http-client, serialization, middleware
- domain: apis, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: ruby
- tags: soap, wsdl, ws-security, xml, enterprise-integration

## Member repositories
- savonrb/savon (main) score 96

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:11.877286+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:55:51.012654+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/savonrb/savon (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:11.877286+00:00, sha 96310814f027)
  - homepage: https://savonrb.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:35:48.919745+00:00, sha b8e706e06000)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.