webficient-twilio

= Twilio Gem

The Twilio gem provides two major pieces of functionality: (1) a Ruby wrapper for the Twilio REST API and (2) response handlers based on the Twilio Markup XML (TwiML).

See http://www.twilio.com/docs/index for Twilio’s API documentation.

== Calling the Twilio REST API

First set your credentials by calling the connect method:

Twilio.connect(‘my_twilio_sid’, ‘my_auth_token’)

Now call any of the Twilio classes:

Twilio::Call.make(‘1234567890’, ‘9876543210’, ‘http://mysite.com/connected_call‘) Twilio::Recording.list

== Responding to Twilio

When Twilio calls your application URL, your response must use the Twilio Markup XML (http://www.twilio.com/docs/api_reference/TwiML/). The Twilio gem makes this very easy by providing a Twilio Verb class.

For example, in a Ruby on Rails application, you could do the following inside a controller class:

Twilio::Verb.dial ‘415-123-4567’

and you can nest multiple verbs inside a block:

verb = Twilio::Verb.new { |v| v.say “The time is #{Time.now}” v.hangup } verb.response

== Installation

gem install twilio

== Contributing

1. Run ‘bundle’ from the command line to install dependencies
2. Write test(s) for your patch
3. Submit a pull request

Note: don’t require ‘rubygems’ in any file (http://www.rubyinside.com/why-using-require-rubygems-is-wrong-1478.html)

== Testing

• Currently using RSpec
• Tested with REE 1.8.7, MRI 1.9.2, MRI 1.9.3, and JRuby 1.6.5

== Copyright

Copyright Phil Misiowiec, Webficient LLC. See LICENSE for details.

== Contributors

• Kyle Daigle
• Yuri Gadow
• Kyle Humberto
• Vlad Moskovets
• Jonathan Rudenberg
• Mark Turner
• Jeff Wigal
• Alex K Wolfe