Advanced Call Forwarding with Ruby, Sinatra, and Twilio

Learn how to use Twilio to forward a series of phone calls to your state senators.

Local Development

This project is built using the Sinatra web framework.

To run the app locally, follow these steps:

1. Clone this repository and cd into it.

   git clone git@github.com:TwilioDevEd/call-forwarding-sinatra.git
   cd call-forwarding-sinatra

2. Install the dependencies:

   bundle install

3. Create application database: Make sure you have installed PostgreSQL. If on a Mac, I recommend Postgres.app. Given that, we'll use a rake task to generate the database used by the app. You just need to provide a valid user with permission to create databases.

   bundle exec rake db:create[db_user_name] db:seed

   Find more information on how Rake tasks are created and executed.

4. Expose your application to the internet using ngrok. In a separate terminal session, start ngrok with:

   ngrok http 9292

   Once you have started ngrok, update your TwiML application's voice URL setting to use your ngrok hostname. It will look something like this in your Twilio console:

   https://d06f533b.ngrok.io/callcongress/welcome
   

5. Start your development server:

   bundle exec rackup

   Once ngrok is running, open up your browser and go to your ngrok URL.

Run the Tests

bundle exec rake spec

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