ideone-ruby-api

Ruby bindings for the Ideone SOAP API — an online compiler and pastebin.

Requires Ruby 3.4+. Developed on Ruby 4.0.

The SOAP service this gem wraps is still live. The original operations (testFunction, getLanguages, createSubmission, getSubmissionStatus, getSubmissionDetails) still work:

Sphere Engine no longer develops this SOAP API. They recommend the Compilers REST API v4 for new products. This gem stays on Ideone SOAP so existing callers keep working.

The old PDF (http://ideone.com/files/ideone-api.pdf) is gone.

# Gemfile
gem "ideone-ruby-api"

gem install ideone-ruby-api

require "ideone"

client = Ideone.new("username", "password")

# Log SOAP traffic
client = Ideone.new("username", "password", true)

link = client.create_submission("puts 'hello, world'", 17) # 17 = Ruby
# => "TOKEN"

client.submission_status(link)
# => { status: 0, result: 15 }

client.submission_details(link)
# => { "error" => "OK", "langName" => "Ruby", "output" => "hello, world\n", ... }

client.languages
# => { "1" => "C++ (gcc 8.3)", "17" => "Ruby (ruby 2.5.5)", "116" => "Python 3 (python 3.12)", ... }

client.test
# => { "error" => "OK", "moreHelp" => "ideone.com", "pi" => "3.14",
#      "answerToLifeAndEverything" => "42", "oOok" => true }

Call languages for the current list. As of 2026-09 these still match the old docs:

submission_status returns integers:

status (execution stage)

result (when status is 0)

Poll until status == 0 before reading output from submission_details.

• Ideone::AuthError — Ideone returned AUTH_ERROR
• Ideone::Error — any other API or transport failure

bundle install
bundle exec rake

Default tests are mocked (WebMock) and do not call Ideone.

IDEONE_USER=you IDEONE_PASSWORD=secret bundle exec rake

CI runs on Ruby 3.4 and 4.0.

• https://github.com/maveonair/ccpacona
• https://github.com/jonathanperret/ideone.rb
• https://github.com/Pistos/ideone-gem

Copyright (c) 2011-2026 Kenny Meyer. See LICENSE.txt.