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= Spherical

Spherical provides access to VMware vSphere servers and their resources via a self-contained Ruby gem. It provides the following features/benefits:

• Small number of dependencies; only relies on savon and xmlsimple
• Utilizes meta-programming wherever possible to introspect server-side operations and data structures, enabling simple adaptation to changes in the vSphere API.
• Abstracts away complex traversals of vSphere tree structures, as well as access to properties, etc.
• Covers almost the entire vSphere API -- if you can do it directly with the vSphere SOAP API, you can do it with Spherical.

== Requirements

When installing Spherical, the following gems will be installed automatically if they are not already:

• savon -- a library providing simplified access to WSDL endpoints
• xmlsimple -- a robust XML parsing library that converts even complex XML to simple native data structures.
• rspec -- spec testing support

== RDoc Documentation

See the auto-generated documentation[http://rubydoc.info/github/kenkeiter/spherical/]