Consume .NET in rails

Rails
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Hello,
What is the preferred way to consume .NET webservices in rails?
Currently
we have a file in the lib directory handling all this but I would like a
cleaner way to

1 - have the services act more “model” like so we can access data like
NETApi.get_users()

2 - Allow the rails client to login only once, as logging in each time
for
a request can be very slow on a very large wsdl file

Any suggestions? I am using soap4r now and it works fine but I think
it
can be tidier. Also logging in to the NET site on startup slows down
launching future rails instances. Some sample below

module NETAPILibrary

require ‘soap/wsdlDriver’
require ‘soap/header/simplehandler’
require ‘uuid’

class AutheticationHeaderHandler < SOAP::Header::SimpleHandler
#The header is named “SecureHeader” in this web service.
@@HEADER_NAME = ‘AuthenticationHeader’
def initialize(namespace, companyID, userID)
super(XSD::QName.new(namespace, @@HEADER_NAME))
@user_element = XSD::QName.new(namespace, ‘CompanyId’)
@password_element = XSD::QName.new(namespace, ‘UserId’)
@companyID, @userID = companyID, userID
end

 def on_simple_outbound
   {@user_element => @companyID, @password_element => @userID}
 end

end

def bt_initialize
$soap = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new($BT_WSDL_URL).create_rpc_driver
$soap.headerhandler <<
AutheticationHeaderHandler.new(“http://testapi.com/”,
$bt_rootid,$bt_user_id)
end

def bt_getmemberbyemail(email)
res = $soap.GetMemberByEmail(:email => email)
return res.getMemberByEmailResult.iD
end