Unterbahn » sms http://unterbahn.com Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:26:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Open Data Kit – ODK http://unterbahn.com/2009/06/open-data-kit-odk/ http://unterbahn.com/2009/06/open-data-kit-odk/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:31:36 +0000 Jeffrey Warren http://unterbahn.com/?p=694

A mobile data collection kit that’s been deployed in quite a few places. See code here: Open Data Kit

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For those of you trying to write Rails applications around a FrontlineSMS database in MySQL:

rails-frontlinesms.txt

]]> http://unterbahn.com/2009/06/rails-schema-for-frontlinesms/feed/ 0 Batch importing text messages from Twitter in Rails http://unterbahn.com/2009/03/batch-importing-text-messages-from-twitter-in-rails/ http://unterbahn.com/2009/03/batch-importing-text-messages-from-twitter-in-rails/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:07:37 +0000 Jeffrey Warren http://unterbahn.com/?p=196 Here we actually batch import the messages, saving them in a local model. I also demonstrate a script to perform the imports, and set up a table to store key:value pairs for more advanced usage – I’ll finish that feature up in a subsequent tutorial.

Saving the messages locally is important for not exceeding the Twitter rate limit, as well as for performing more complex searches and manipulations with the data. It also provides a common message storage if you’re importing from multiple sources, say, FrontlineSMS, Clickatell, and Twitter.


WHOOZ Tutorial: Importing text messages from Twitter to Ruby on Rails.

Download the code for this tutorial here: whooz-messages-table-batch-importing.zip (LGPL 3.0) or on Google Code

This builds on the code written in the last tutorial, Sending and receiving text messages in Rails with Twitter

I know this is pretty low resolution, but I’ll upload an HD version next week; Vimeo allows only one HD clip per week.

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