June 22, 2010
A couple years ago, I built a small Ruby script to let users send pictures from their phones to a webforum. This was an idea I’d been kicking around for a while since the early mobile photo-sharing sites sprang up, and when I stumbled across the MMS2R gem, I figured it was time. It quickly became one of the more popular features of the forum; it’s neat to be able to chime in from where-ever you are with a quick snapshot of what you’re seeing or doing.
The other night, I needed to dig back into that script and found my brain itching from the way the script had organically grown a bit sideways over time, so I decided to refactor it and toss it up on Github in case it’s helpful as a starting point for anyone who wants to do something similar.