# Audio recording through Rails App \> Web Server

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-recording-through-rails-app-web-server/94707>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 11, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-recording-through-rails-app-web-server/94707 "2006-05-11T20:08:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dave)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-recording-through-rails-app-web-server/94707/1 "2006-05-11T20:08:45Z")

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Hey all,

There are a couple posts about the possibility of using Red 5 to record  
audio through a user’s mic to the server, through RoR apps. I wonder:  
besides Odeo (I think they’ve developed an in-house app?) are there any  
examples and/or demos of this being done?

Or, are there any reasonable java sources that actually _do_ work to  
take mic input from a user’s machine, and save it as a file to the  
server?

Thanks!

–Dave

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**Author:** ![dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dave)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-recording-through-rails-app-web-server/94707/2 "2006-05-11T20:15:23Z")

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I wouldn’t use a browser for this. I prefer to build on the appropriate  
infrastructure, which is telephony …

Try using a softphone to send the audio via VoIP to an Asterisk PBX.

You can hook that into a Rails app by integrating RAGI. See http://  
[ragi.sf.net](http://ragi.sf.net) …

– G.