Batphone

Batphone is an Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI) library for Ruby. It is well-suited to simple bat-tasks, with a small learning curve. (I promise you’ll spend more time figuring out AGI than batphone). It is also perfectly capable of making all your wildest AGI dreams come true. It won’t get in your way.

www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+AGI

Synopsis

In extensions.conf:

exten => batphone,1,AGI(batphone.agi)

batphone.agi:

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'agi'

agi = AGI.new
agi.answer
agi.stream_file('batman_help_the_monkeys_are_everywhere', nil)
begin
  # press pound to make them stop!
  r = agi.stream_file('tt-monkeys', '#')
end while r.result != ?#
agi.stream_file('POW', nil)
agi.hangup

Requirements

Gee, Batman, all you need is Ruby. You might want Asterisk too.

Installation

Get it from GitHub and put it somewhere batty.

sudo rake install

sudo ruby setup.rb

Details

An AGI object serves as your proxy to Asterisk. Each time you send a command to Asterisk using AGI#send or using the metaprogrammed interface, you get an AGI::Response back.

TODO

5xx errors span multiple lines and should be handled by the lib (probably an exception raised too)
It might be nice to have convenience methods that match up with regular Asterisk Applications (commands), e.g. Playback, Background, etc.
I’m inclined to make an OpenStruct-like interface to the Asterisk environment, but I need to make sure there won’t be any metaprogramming conflitcs

License

License: Distributed under the same terms as Ruby.

Colophon

Holy red phones, Batman! Asterisk is about phones. Rubies are red. Batphones are really swell red phones.

No relation to batsman, though I think he’s swell too.

The image is from an article on building your own physical batphone at Millionaire Playboy.