Sending cell-phone text-message from Rails

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

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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:

Michael Guterl

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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

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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-application

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

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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?

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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

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