[LRUG] SMS receiving in Ruby

[James Darling]

http://www.twitter.com/abscond/statuses/1126423

Marvellous. Twitter needs some work on some really obvious "This is  
what you do, you idiot" help/marketing.



James Darling
Abscond Design
james at abscond.org
07811407085
AIM/iChat
Rose Cottage
Gwavas Road
Newlyn
Cornwall
TR18 5EG
UK

On 14 Dec 2006, at 17:33, Murray Steele wrote:

> If what you want to do is send something from your mobile to have  
> it be processed by ruby, you could do what I did some time ago  
> (altho' not with Ruby as the processor): send an MMS to an e-mail  
> address (assuming your mobile provider has such a gateway, O2 does,  
> or did) and then have procmail set up to filter certain sender  
> addresses to a ruby script.  You're then just processing e-mail.
>
> Muz
>
>
> On 14/12/06, James Darling <james at abscond.org> wrote:
> Unfortunately, from what I can tell, this is too only about sending  
> SMS messages, and not receiving them? Because twitter only accepts  
> incoming text messages to the service from mobiles in the US. This  
> is actually what I'm trying to see if I can tinker with.
>
>
>
> James Darling
> Abscond Design
> james at abscond.org
> 07811407085
> AIM/iChat
> Rose Cottage
> Gwavas Road
> Newlyn
> Cornwall
> TR18 5EG
> UK
>
> On 14 Dec 2006, at 15:04, Chris Roos wrote:
>
>> On 12/14/06, James Darling <james at abscond.org> wrote:
>> Just completely for side little personal projects I'm playing with  
>> in my head, does anyone know how I'd go about receiving SMS  
>> messages here in the UK that I can then process using Ruby?
>> As this is a personal play about, I only have pocket money for  
>> this, so the cheapest way would be much appreciated.
>> I have found ruby-sms [1], but this seems to only send messages  
>> through an interesting bluetooth to real mobile phone setup.
>>
>> Any ideas/experience?
>>
>> he he he[1]
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> [1] http://blog.seagul.co.uk/articles/2006/12/14/addicted-to- 
>> twitter-com
>>
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