Question about soap/wsdlDriver

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Hi all,

I ran into an oddity the other day as I was chunking through pickaxe. I checked google, but did not see this specific problem, nor did I see it in the errata for the book.

I am doing the Google query example, and can run the query no problem. I get back a result set as I expect. E.g. the first element of a search for "ruby":
    irb(main):020:0> p result.resultElements[0] #<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb0eec0
    {}URL="http://www.ruby-lang.org/" {}cachedSize="18k"
    {}directoryCategory=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb0ea10
    {}fullViewableName=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb0e858>
    {}specialEncoding=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb0e5b0>>
    {}directoryTitle=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb0e1c8>
    {}hostName=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb0df0c>
    {}relatedInformationPresent="true" {}snippet="Interpreted, dynamically typed, pure
    object-oriented, scripting language for<br> fast, easy programming, from Japan. Simple,
    straightforward, extensible." {}summary=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb0d8cc>
    {}title="<b>Ruby</b>-lang.org"> => nil

but, if I do the following, I get an error:

     irb(main):021:0> p result.resultElements[0].URL
     NoMethodError: undefined method `URL' for #<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x161dd80>
             from (irb):21

The strangeness is that URL, is defined, but the accessor was renamed to "uRL":

     irb(main):022:0> p result.resultElements[0].methods.sort
     [... "uRL", "uRL=", ...]
     => nil

So using uRL instead of URL "fixes" the example in the book
     irb(main):023:0> p result.resultElements[0].uRL
     "http://www.ruby-lang.org/"
     => nil

Is this something specific to my environment, or is there something I missed in some documentation somewhere?

Thanks,

Matt

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