Well, you may need to "brew your own". The most likely issue would probably be that you don't have the information for an e-mail to SMS gateway for your cell phone provider. You'd need to get that information from them. This isn't so much a "what should I use instead of sms_fu?" kind of question, it's more a question of, "how do I properly implement this?"
It's also possible that your provider doesn't support e-mail to SMS for some reason. I can't see any reason they wouldn't or couldn't, but then again, I've never been to India :) The only other options I can list off the top of my head would be a third party provider that you pay for API access. There are companies - at least here in the US, probably in India as well - who act as intermediaries to send SMS messages between different providers. For example, say you're on AT&T (a GSM network) and I'm on Sprint (a CDMA network). I send you a text message. It goes from my phone, to Sprint, _to the intermediary in question - whoever they are_ - to AT&T and finally to your phone. Some of these providers may have paid APIs that you can license to send the text message directly to their servers/systems, but that usually tends to be a fairly pricey option and is usually reserved for companies who need to send large volumes of SMS messages. Most of the time, these kinds of services are language agnostic, so you could build it in Ruby, PHP, Perl, Python, Scala, VB.NET, C#, whatever. I'd start by calling up your phone company and asking, "how do I send a text message by e-mail?". That should get you started. Good luck! On Mar 18, 2:57 am, seeni khan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Fallen phoenix, > Is there any other option available in rails to send sms? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
