Mobilizing Your Rails Application - LA Ruby Conference 2009

Mobilize Your Rails Application ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Why care about mobile ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Some mobile stats (in billions of course)

So, how do we take advantage of this?

Make your application accessible by the majority of web enabled mobile devices devices devices

Keep your users engaged through SMS , MMS and E-Mail E-Mail

Many Mobile Devices Can Access the Real Web From Flickr User Carlos Magaña

One Web Making the same information and services available to all users regardless of the device used Making the same information and services available to all users regardless of the device used

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Mobile Fu Plugin ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

How does one master mobile fu?

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base has_mobile_fu end end

demo. presentlyapp.com iPhone Safari

respond_to do | format | format.html format.mobile end ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

<%= mobile_xhtml_doctype %> <html> <head> ... </head> <body> ... </body> </html> </html> ../layouts/ application.mobile.erb http://mobiforge.com/designing/story/comparison-xhtml-mobile-profile-and-xhtml-basic

<?xml version="1.0" charset="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" " http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd "> <html> <head> ... </head> <body> ... </body> </html> </html> ../layouts/ application.mobile.erb http://mobiforge.com/designing/story/comparison-xhtml-mobile-profile-and-xhtml-basic

Is the user using a specific device? is_device?( ‘blackberry’ ) Is the user using a mobile device? is_mobile_device? Is the request format currently :mobile ? in_mobile_view?

iPhone foo_ mobilewebkit .css <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'foo' %> Android foo_ mobilewebkit .css BlackBerry foo_ blackberry .css Win Mobile foo_ mobileexplorer .css etc...

What about leveraging other mobile technologies ?

SMS Short Message Service Short Message Service

Keep Users Informed with SMS ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What tools can we use to send SMS messages from our Rails application?

Clickatell Gem ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

api = Clickatell::API.authenticate(' your_api_id ', ' your_username ', ' your_password ') api.send_message(' 5558675309 ', ' Hello from clickatell ') require 'clickatell'

SMS Fu Plugin ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Wait, it’s free? So how does it work?

Number: 555-867-5309 5558675309 @ vtext.com Carrier: Verizon

deliver_sms(‘ 5558675309 ’,‘ verizon ’, ‘ hello! ’) class AwesomeController < ApplicationController has_sms_fu end end

Some SMS Fu Carriers Alltell, Ameritech, AT&T, Bell South Mobility, BlueSkyFrog, Boost Mobile, Cellular South, Kajeet, Metro PCS, Powertel, PSC Wireless, Qwest, Southern Link, Spring, Rodgers, Suncom, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Verizon Wireless , E-Plus, O2, Orange, Telconica, Vodafone ...

What if I want to add a new carrier called Ruby Mobile ?

carriers: ... ruby_mobile: name: Ruby Mobile value: @txt.rubymobile.com Add the following to .../config/sms_fu.yml deliver_sms(‘ 5558675309 ’,’ ruby_mobile ’, ‘ hello! ’)

Remind Your Users That They May Get Charged from flickr user ‘bowbrick’

MMS Multimedia Message Service Multimedia Message Service

MMS ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Problem with Receiving MMS Crap Crap Crap Cat

Well, how can I receive SMS or MMS from my Rails app ?

Short Codes Special numbers that are, you guessed it, short, that can be used to receive SMS or MMS messages from mobile phones. Special numbers that are, you guessed it, short, that can be used to receive SMS or MMS messages from mobile phones.

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Receiving SMS or MMS as an e-mail is another solution and its free and relatively simple

MMS2R Gem ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Retrieve only the intended attachment mms.default_media Retrieve all media files from the MMS mms.media Retrieve only the intended message mms.body Create a new MMS2R object from a TMail object mms = MMS2R::Media.new(email)

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Adding new templates for carriers is easy ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],conf/mms.myhelio.com.yml

Mobilizing your Rails app is simple and easy

Mobile Fu http://github.com/brendanlim/mobile-fu/ Clickatell http://clickatell.rubyforge.org/ SMS Fu http://github.com/brendanlim/sms-fu/ MMS2R http://github.com/monde/mms2r/

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