Question

I am new to ruby and rails and i need to create an sms application that uses a rest api. (own api and not something like clickatell or so which have gems). I’ve gone through a lot of material and having confused myself entirely am posting on this forum. Basically i need to be able to enter a number and type a message and click on send and the message should go to the number. I have an API key. and the API Url. I am quite confused about where to write the post methods etc/where to do routing – which im guessing in config and other details. Any help or direction would be appreciated.

Answer 1

require 'open-uri'

class SmsMessage

  attr_reader :url, :number, :message, request_id

  API_ID = 'xxxxxxx'
  API_USERNAME = 'xxxxxx'
  API_PASSWORD = 'xxxxxx'

  def initialize(number, message)
    @number = number
    @message = message
  end

  def deliver
    @url = "http://api.clickatell.com/http/sendmsg?user=#{API_USERNAME}&password=#{API_PASSWORD}&api_id=#{API_ID}&to=#{@number}&text=#{CGI::escape(@message)}"
    @request_id = open(@url)
  end

  def self.deliver(phone, msg)
    SmsMessage.new(phone, msg).deliver
  end
end

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