title: Writing a simple webservice in C# and calling it from Ruby on Rails
body: <p>I need to create a simple webservice in C# but I'm not sure where to start (I've coded UI apps in C# before but all my web experience is in Ruby on Rails). Where do I start?</p>
  
  <p>The only client for the webservice will be a Ruby on Rails app so there's no need for any HTML rendering. I was thinking of just returning a XML or YAML formatted string unless there's an easier way. I'm not too keen on SOAP but if it's easy/natural in C# &amp; Ruby then I'd consider it (or anything else).</p>