Add a comment to Jira via Soap

add_comment.rb

add_comment = client.request(:add_comment) do
  soap.body do |xml|
    xml.in0 token
    xml.in1 ticket_num
    # create a remote comment
    xml.in2('xsi:type' => 'ins0:RemoteComment') {
      xml.body "This is a comment from Ruby",
        'xsi:type' => 'xsd:string'
      xml.author 'xsi:type' => 'xsd:string', 'xsi:nil' => 'true'
      xml.created 'xsi:type' => 'xsd:dateTime', 'xsi:nil' => 'true'
      xml.groupLevel 'xsi:type' => 'xsd:string', 'xsi:nil' => 'true'
      xml.id 'xsi:type' => 'xsd:string', 'xsi:nil' => 'true'
      xml.roleLevel 'xsi:type' => 'xsd:string', 'xsi:nil' => 'true'
      xml.updateAuthor 'xsi:type' => 'xsd:string', 'xsi:nil' => 'true'
      xml.updated 'xsi:type' => 'xsd:dateTime', 'xsi:nil' => 'true'
    }
  end
end