A question about SMS

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Thanks for your mail. I got the book. Another problem with RUBY just coming in my mind. May I develop a program to send SMS in RUBY? How to do that? Any help?

Waiting for your reply,

With Regards,
Sabyasachi Mustafi

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Quoting Sabyasachi Mustafi sabymus@rediffmail.com:

Thanks for your mail. I got the book. Another problem with RUBY just coming
in my mind. May I develop a program to send SMS in RUBY? How to do that? Any
help?

The answer is yes but as far as I know there is no straithforward way (I mean
something like ruby-sms library).
There are at least two solutions:
1, using an external programm (e.g. gnokii)
2, controling a phone directly via serial port (it may be possible to use AT
commands to send messages depending on the phone)

If you plan to use unixlike OS for the task I would recommend number 1. It is
very easy and fast to setup (gnokii must however support your phone).

Regards,

Dalibor

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There’s a third way. You can use one of the many online sms providers. It’s
easy to register and pay for messages with a VISA card, and you can usually
talk to these services using protocols like xml-rpc, or simply passing custom
xml messages over a TCP/IP connection.

Terje Elde

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On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:31:58PM +0900, Dalibor Sramek wrote:

Thanks for your mail. I got the book. Another problem with RUBY just coming
in my mind. May I develop a program to send SMS in RUBY? How to do that? Any
help?

The answer is yes but as far as I know there is no straithforward way (I mean
something like ruby-sms library).
There are at least two solutions:
1, using an external programm (e.g. gnokii)
2, controling a phone directly via serial port (it may be possible to use AT
commands to send messages depending on the phone)

If you plan to use unixlike OS for the task I would recommend number 1. It is
very easy and fast to setup (gnokii must however support your phone).