[Ruby] Looking for beta testers for a Ruby (on Rails) phone call API/web service

[adrian@alienanthem.com]

I'm interested in testing.


Adrian







> I'm looking for some beta testers for RESTPhone - it's a Ruby on Rails API
> for making and receiving phone calls.  You can use it in two ways - either
> as a web service (there's a REST interface) where I handle the actual
> calls,
> or you can use it on your own Asterisk server.
>
> (It's only Ruby on Rails because it's using ActiveRecord, FYI.)
>
> Note - eventually the phone calls via REST service bits will cost actual
> money - charges yet to be determined (have to pay the phone company
> somehow).  No charges during the beta though, and of course no charges if
> you're running on your own Asterisk server - MIT license on the code.  No
> charges at all related to using the code that is; you'll still need to pay
> someone to ship around your calls if you want to hit the public phone
> network.  If you know how to do this for free I'd love to have a
> conversation with you :-].
>
> Send me mail if you're interested or have any questions.  Code's available
> from Rubyforge now, but I'm still working on documentation (and the
> running
> it on your own Asterisk server bit is pretty much undocumented at this
> point, but I'd be happy to answer questions) and I'm fully prepared to
> help
> anyone who's interested in implementing phone systems.  (I'm not a
> professional tech writer by any means, so one of the points of the beta
> will
> be to help me figure out what bits aren't obvious.)
>
> To get the code:
>
> ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/bansheetalk/trunk
>
> There's a basic demo if you call +1 206 400 2414, and visit
> www.nosinglepointoffailure.com.
>
>
> The interface for building the voice menu on the demo looks like:
>
>   def self.create_menus
>     # Specify the username and password for your restphone.com account.
>     builder_args = {
>       :uname => 'default_customer',
>       :pword => 'xxxxx'
>     }
>
>     # Create the menu building object
>     builder = RestPhone::PhoneMenuBuilderRemote.new builder_args
>
>     # Create a menu that plays a brief announcement, then waits
>     # for the user to key up to two numbers on their phone.
>     builder.create_menu :name => 'default_menu' do |m|
>       m.goto :goto => 'got_dtmf',
>       :dtmf_length => 2,
>       :dtmf => '*',
>       :prompt => {:text => "Welcome to the Banshee Talk demonstration
> system.  Press one or two keys to display on the demonstration site."}
>     end
>
>     # Create a menu that plays a thankyou, then posts the
>     # keys recevied to the remote URL.
>     builder.create_menu :name => :got_dtmf do |m|
>       m.post :url =>
> "http://www.nosinglepointoffailure.com/dtmf_checks/create"
>       m.audio :prompt => {:text => "Thank you."}
>       m.previous
>     end
>
>     # Put these menus on the restphone.com server
>     builder.push
>   end
>
> When you hit keys talking to the demo, the posts to
> nosinglepointoffailure.com look like:
>
> Processing DtmfChecksController#create (for 216.182.228.122 at 2007-01-04
> 01:37:18) [POST]
>   Session ID: e0d76b2650c7eb72877c612d4269857d
>   Parameters: {"action"=>"create", "controller"=>"dtmf_checks",
> "caller_id"=>"removed", "caller_id_name"=>"Moore James    ", "dtmf"=>"99"}
>
>  - James
>
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