Building an SMS-based Ruby on Rails game

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Hello all!

I'm a new Ruby enthusiast who is interested in making a SMS-based RoR game. I've explored a few options
and it seems like the path to go is to use Twilio (or a similar third party provider) and integrate
into the RoR app. Does anyone have expertise on any other methods? I've heard that you can
use a person's number and simply email a message to the number with a suffix (such as @att.net), bypassing
a third party provider.

Thanks!
Akansh

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You might want to take a look at GitHub - brendanlim/sms-fu: Allows you to send an SMS using Ruby for FREE using an email to sms solution.

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On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 15:11 Akansh Murthy wrote:

Hello all!

I'm a new Ruby enthusiast who is interested in making a SMS-based RoR
game. I've explored a few options
and it seems like the path to go is to use Twilio (or a similar third
party provider) and integrate
into the RoR app. Does anyone have expertise on any other methods? I've
heard that you can
use a person's number and simply email a message to the number with a
suffix (such as @att.net), bypassing
a third party provider.

Thanks!
Akansh

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Do you really need to use SMS? Have you considered Push Notifications?
Maybe they are a better fit and potentially cheaper. In case you want to
use them, I recommend you this gem:

Hope it helps.

Carlos Alonso | Software Engineer | @calonso <https://twitter.com/calonso&gt;

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On 12 July 2015 at 20:54, George Drummond <georgedrummond@gmail.com> wrote:

You might want to take a look at GitHub - brendanlim/sms-fu: Allows you to send an SMS using Ruby for FREE using an email to sms solution.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 15:11 Akansh Murthy wrote:

Hello all!

I'm a new Ruby enthusiast who is interested in making a SMS-based RoR
game. I've explored a few options
and it seems like the path to go is to use Twilio (or a similar third
party provider) and integrate
into the RoR app. Does anyone have expertise on any other methods? I've
heard that you can
use a person's number and simply email a message to the number with a
suffix (such as @att.net), bypassing
a third party provider.

Thanks!
Akansh

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Thanks so much!!

@George- that might be exactly what I'm looking for.
@Carlos- thanks, I'll explore but I'm looking for something interactive that will allow a 2-way conversation.

-Akansh

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On Jul 13, 2015, at 6:13 AM, Carlos Alonso wrote:

Do you really need to use SMS? Have you considered Push Notifications? Maybe they are a better fit and potentially cheaper. In case you want to use them, I recommend you this gem:
GitHub - calonso/rails-push-notifications: Rails iOS, Android and Windows Phone Push Notifications made easy!!

Hope it helps.

Carlos Alonso | Software Engineer | @calonso

On 12 July 2015 at 20:54, George Drummond <georgedrummond@gmail.com> wrote:
You might want to take a look at GitHub - brendanlim/sms-fu: Allows you to send an SMS using Ruby for FREE using an email to sms solution.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 15:11 Akansh Murthy wrote:
Hello all!

I'm a new Ruby enthusiast who is interested in making a SMS-based RoR game. I've explored a few options
and it seems like the path to go is to use Twilio (or a similar third party provider) and integrate
into the RoR app. Does anyone have expertise on any other methods? I've heard that you can
use a person's number and simply email a message to the number with a suffix (such as @att.net), bypassing
a third party provider.

Thanks!
Akansh