Asp Forum - Sending cell-phone text-message from Rails

Paul

11/5/2007 10:25:00 PM

Is there a way of sending a cell-phone text-message from Rails? If so,
how?
Thanks,
Paul Davidowitz

3 Answers

Michael Guterl

11/5/2007 11:02:00 PM

Note: parts of this message were removed by the gateway to make it a legal Usenet post.

On 11/5/07, Paul <pdavidow@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a way of sending a cell-phone text-message from Rails? If so,
> how?
> Thanks,
> Paul Davidowitz
>
>
>
If you know the carrier you can do it pretty easily with email. This may or
may not be what you're looking for.

Example: 1234567890@vtext.com for verizon wireless.

Here's a list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateways#Em...

Michael Guterl

MenTaLguY

11/5/2007 11:04:00 PM

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 07:35:43 +0900, Paul <pdavidow@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way of sending a cell-phone text-message from Rails? If so,
> how?

You would probably want to use one of the available Ruby libraries for
sending an SMS message. Here is one example:

http://www.lukeredpath.co.uk/2007/8/29/sending-sms-messages-from-your-rails-a...

While sending SMS messages is not Rails-specific functionality, you may
get better information on how to integrate such a Ruby library with your
Rails application by asking on the rails mailing list instead of the
general Ruby one.

-mental

Jeremy Woertink

11/6/2007 1:17:00 AM

Paul wrote:
> Is there a way of sending a cell-phone text-message from Rails? If so,
> how?
> Thanks,
> Paul Davidowitz

There sure is. 37signals has an application called backpack, which
allows you to send a text to your phone from the rails app at a specific
time, or after something happens, vice versa, I think you can send
something to your backpack account (not too sure on this). It's pretty
cool though. Check it out on the rails forum.

~Jeremy
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-....

comp.lang.ruby

Sending cell-phone text-message from Rails

Paul

Michael Guterl

MenTaLguY

Jeremy Woertink

x Login to ForumsZone