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Mike Wiesenhart
Mike Wiesenhart

Reputation: 316

Using Twilio in Rails 4 - A 'To' phone number is required

I am following a Twilio tutorial (HERE) to add voice and sms to my rails 4 and keep getting the same error...A 'To' phone number is required. I think I have a to number defined...no? I have included all the relevant code below. Thank you in advance. Would also like to note that client_phone is a column in the table...the client_phone is entered by the user and then the button is clicked to share it.

Controller:

def share_over_sms

   twilio_sid = ENV["TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID"]
   twilio_token = ENV["TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN"]
   twilio_phone_number = ENV["TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER"]

   @twilio_client = Twilio::REST::Client.new twilio_sid, twilio_token

   @twilio_client.account.sms.messages.create(
     :from => "+1#{twilio_phone_number}",
     :to => @client_phone,
     :body => "This is a test."
   )
end

Route:

get "share_over_sms"

View:

<%= link_to 'Share Text', share_over_sms_listing_collection_path(@listing_collection), class: "button btn-nklyn-dark btn-2x" %>

Error:

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 699

Answers (1)

Megan Speir
Megan Speir

Reputation: 3811

Mike, did you try Phil's suggestions from above? Using listing_collection_‌​params["client_phone"‌​] instead of @client_phone in the :to parameter and using @twilio.messages.create? The .sms.messages endpoint in the API is deprecated.

I would also suggest taking a peek at the production ready code samples from tutorials like this one to compare the Rails setup.

Upvotes: 1

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