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I believe Twilio has wrappers around their REST API in various languages, so you don't have to deal with any of the web stuff.

However, you'd still have to host your own scripts, so if Tropo does your script hosting, there's that advantage. How do you communicate with the rest of your App though? Or does it exist entirely on the Tropo 'cloud'?

Care to share what the app is if it's a public thing?

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Sure: http://github.com/hopeless/phone2post (ring a number to record a podcast and publish that to Posterous)

yeah, Tropo hosts the scripts for you so it meant that all the telephony stuff is handled by tropo.rb (on their servers) and this posts the mp3 to my sinatra app (phone2post.rb), which can limit itself to acting as a proxy for Posterous. I prefer the separation of concerns that this permitted me. For a more complicated app, I can definitely see the advantages of controlling the telephony side from the web app but in this case it wasn't necessary.

I built a Twilio Ruby gem for a project, after not being happy with the official library (poor code quality and poor test coverage)

http://github.com/stevegraham/twilio-rb

We're working on all new libraries that will be MUCH better than the ones we have now. Should be out soon.

Do you plan to re-enable SMS delivery outside the US ?

Hi gspyrou... yes, we'll do it and be able to fully support it like we do with our US SMS.

Glad to hear that , because at the moment this is a show stopper for our project.

Thank you!

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