Helper method to create an sms link

[aantix]

When the user clicks the sms link, the user's messaging software is opened with the passed in phone number and optional body value prepopulated.

Test page :
https://sms-to-rails-test.herokuapp.com/

<%= sms_to "15155555785", "Text me", body: "I have a question.." %>

Summary

OSX Chrome/Safari

Android

iOS Safari

[guilleiguaran]

I think this should be sms_to to be consistent with email_to

[aantix]

I think this should be sms_to to be consistent with email_to

Fair point. Changed the method name to sms_to.

[sharang-d]

Simple doc changes :)

[aantix]

Are there any additional messaging clients that we can test this with?
https://sms-to-rails-test.herokuapp.com/

[pdobb]

🤜🏻🤛🏻

[bogdan]

body escaping had some problems in historical versions of iOS and Android.
We still have this workaround in our code:

    unless ios_greater_or_equal?("10", user_agent) ||   android_greater_or_equal?('6.0.1', user_agent) # problem was fixed in ios 10 and android 6.0.1+
      body.gsub!('%', '%25')
    end

Maybe this is still actual and should be supported.

https://stackoverflow.com/q/18120062/91610

[danielolivaresd]

Watch out for indentation here (being parsed as a code block)

[kamipo]

Good catch. Fixed by 0e149ab.

[Nodalailama]

Hello,

There is a small problem: when I want to open sms app without any number, the ";" just before the "?" => "sms:;?" add in the phone field a blank phone number.

If you can remove the ";" when phone is blank then it work correctly.

Cordialement,