Friday, June 1st, 2007...9:47 am

TeleSign Phone Verification with Rails

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I’m currently working on a project where I will be integrating the TeleSign telephone verification system into a Rails app. TeleSign is a very good user verification system that sends either a phone call or a text message to a users phone number that they entered into a form on your website.

For business applications, it is useful to verify that a user can actually be reached at the phone number they provided when they signed up on your website. TeleSign provides a lot of detailed information about the users phone number if you need it, such as type of phone used and geographic location including latitude and longitude.

I’m hoping to develop this into the app as a plugin so I can provide it backout as an open source plugin to be used by others. Most of us have relied heavily on other peoples plugins for our Rails projects, and hopefully this will be my opportunity to “give back” to the community in a small way. So stay tuned, and I’ll try to document the process as I go through it.

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  • Tim
    June 19th, 2007 at 9:46 am

    What is the status on this?

    Very interested,

    Tim

    Please email me your response if possible ;)

  • Craig
    June 19th, 2007 at 9:51 am

    Tim,

    I am about to post a new update to the website regarding the status of the Telesign plugin.

    Check back tomorrow and I should have an update

    - Craig

  • Enrique
    July 6th, 2007 at 10:48 pm

    Do you know their pricing? I have recently found their site (Telesign) and am interested. How is their support and can their automated call only verify a code or can it do other things.

  • Craig
    July 17th, 2007 at 10:56 am

    Enrique,

    I’m not completely sure of the pricing structure as I’m only the developer. I do know its a pay-per-call system.

    Their support team is very good and very accessible to help at any time.

    As far as I know the call only does code verification, but they also have a PhoneID addition that will give you lots of geo info on the phone number such as latitude/longitude, type of phone, whether the call was from government #, prison, etc…

  • plastik
    February 28th, 2008 at 8:06 am

    Very useful information.

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