Is there a free way to send/receive text messages from a RoR web application?

Question

I've being doing extensive research but having a hard time finding a cost effective answer. I'm creating a RoR application that requires texts to be sent out occasionally to a customer and for that customer to be able to reply, where my application could then put that reply into a database for further processing. Does anyone have experience with this that may be able to help? Thank you.

Answer 1

You can use twilio api to implement this but it's only free for development. For production it's not free. More info here http://www.twilio.com/sms