Textbelt

A ruby interface for sending texts free of charge through TextBelt.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'textbelt'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install textbelt

Usage

The main API is TextBelt.text. Sending messages should be as simple as passing a number & message, then watching it go!

TextBelt.text('01234567', 'Hello, World!') #=> Your favorite cell phone number gets a text message

If there are any errors that happen server side, we raise then as exceptions locally, see the documentation for text for a look at the different errors that might be raised.

require 'textbelt'

def send_cats(number)
  TextBelt.text(number, 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tntOCGkgt98')
rescue TextBelt::Errors::PhoneQuotaExceededError => e
  puts 'too many cats!!!!'
rescue TextBelt::Errors::BlackListedNumberError => e
  puts 'can not send any more cats to that number :('
end

See the full documentation here.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/djds23/textbelt-gem.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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