http://notkeepingitreal.com/articles/2007/11/04/jay-phillips-next-gen-voip-development-with-ruby-and-adhearsion en-us 40 <p><a href="http://adhearsion.com">Adhearsion</a> is not a rails plugin. Rails is certainly hot though. After all, the web is hot. Telecom, at least historically, is not at all hot.</p> <p>Enter VoIP.</p> <p>Asterisk, the defacto standard, has a fairly tough-to-get-into codebase. Maybe adhearsion can do something.</p> <p>Your phone is actually a universal remote. There are mad possibilities for controlling doors, video games, and all manner of electronics.</p> <p>There are lots of fun hijinx you can get into: spoofing caller id, locking out automated telemarketers, integrating with instant messaging, <span class="caps">ETC</span>.</p> <p>Adhearsion is open source software that abstracts away this technology with ruby in an extensible, easy to understand way. &#8220;Weasels have destroyed the phone system.&#8221; Word!</p> Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:02:00 -0700 urn:uuid:94abcaec-1dc6-4d4f-862c-0c5e15780bbb Kevin http://notkeepingitreal.com/articles/2007/11/04/jay-phillips-next-gen-voip-development-with-ruby-and-adhearsion Rubyconf http://notkeepingitreal.com/articles/trackback/1866