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Developed using Ruby on Rails, this web application aims to ensure that you check your email only when neccessary.

The initial design was to access a user’s email when he/she receives an email, summarize that email and send it as a formatted SMS to the user’s phone. This design was mainly to help keep students who rarely check their .edu emails updated on every important information they may have missed.

Due to complexities and inadequate time, the web application has been stripped to its fundamental feature: sending summarized information to users in as SMS.

Things to be noted:

• Application is subject to change as it is still under development

• Initial version was designed just to test if the idea is feasible

• Security was not top priority during development

Follow the steps below for your own version

• Clone repository

• Copy twilio_controller.rb.cp to twilio_controller.rb

• Run bundle install

• Replace auth_token and account_sid with your own from the twilio dashboard

• Choose which @message request to use based on whether you are using a trial or upgraded version of twilio

• Create your own users.txt or read from a db

• Also note that we used the postgresql gem instead of sqlite3 gem. This was because hosted on heroku. Use sqlite3 gem for Active Record

Feel free to fork and contribute!!!