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title: Send SMS Text message notifications with noticed and Twilio - clearbnb - Part 22
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published_at: 2022-03-30 04:00:30 +0000
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description: In this episode, you&#39;ll learn how to set up Twilio with the noticed gem to send text messages. #rails #rubyonrails
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# Send SMS Text message notifications with noticed and Twilio - clearbnb - Part 22

*Published: March 30, 2022*
*Views: 982*

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## Description

In this episode, you&#39;ll learn how to set up Twilio with the noticed gem to send text messages.
#rails #rubyonrails

## Transcript

hey what&#39;s up welcome back in this episode you&#39;ll learn how to set up twilio to send text text messages uh using the noticed gem where we&#39;re gonna we&#39;re already sending emails using the notice gem you can go back and check out previous episodes to learn more about that but in this episode we&#39;re going to wire up twilio to send text messages so over in the twilio dashboard i&#39;ve already got sort of my billing is set up i&#39;ve set up a payment method i bought this phone number that we can use so we&#39;re going to use this as part of our our setup from the notice gem docs if you go to the docs and then you take a look at the delivery methods under the docs for the twilio delivery method here it talks about all the different ways to enable it so let&#39;s head over to our our message our new message notification that we already have set up again to send to send emails and let&#39;s also deliver by twilio and we want to say um uh yeah so by default it&#39;s going to use our twilio credentials which are going to be stored in our rails application credentials and we need our account sid our auth token and our phone number set up so i&#39;m going to go drop those in real quick and then we&#39;ll come back after those are set up and take a look so this is the these are the credentials that we need to set up so i&#39;m going to grab those first i&#39;m going to grab the phone number that i have you drop in the phone number just like that and now we need to go to our account settings and grab our api keys grab my account sid and my api key for my auth token and we&#39;re done we&#39;re done on the twilio website for now okay the next thing we need to do is look at all these different options so we are not going to change the get twilio url but we are going to override the format and i&#39;ll talk about why so by default right now when we send when we send a new message notification we are requiring that the param message is included in uh in the body that&#39;s because we have a model called the message model and this is for like this two-way messaging between the guest and the host on this short-term vacation rental platform where we have the from user and we have a two user now the problem is um this message that is required when we&#39;re using twilio is supposed to be a string and instead of the string we&#39;re passing in our entire content of the or like the the model object by we&#39;re passing that in the reference to the model object and so instead of passing in the full or instead of using that full model object here this won&#39;t actually work out of the box so what we need to do is we need to override this format for twilio method when we&#39;re talking about delivering to twilio and so we&#39;re going to define a new method here called format for twilio and inside here we need to specify this stuff and let&#39;s see so params notification should be just like the params that are on the existing object and then this twilio credentials thing is actually like rails.application.credentials.twilio and its phone number and the other thing is that we need uh some way to track the phone number for the recipient and right now our user model does not actually have a phone number so let&#39;s go add that rails g migration add phone number to users now if you name your migration just perfectly with like this add thing and then like exactly the name of the columns and such with the table name at the end and then you pass in all the different fields that you want to add your migration will just like magically work for you so we&#39;ll just say rails db migrate and that should add the column for us to our users table now i&#39;m gonna go into the rails console and i&#39;m just gonna like update uh all users um for now in test mode to set their phone number to this test phone number okay and the next thing we want to do is go back to our new new message notification is there anything else that we need to do here i don&#39;t know let&#39;s try this out so we&#39;ll go to rails console and we&#39;ll say m is message.last and then we want to say like new message dot with message is m dot deliver to like user dot let&#39;s see to user.first and we&#39;ll see if i get a text message here um so okay boom oh look at that we got the message but it came in as like yeah the the message object like the the actual message object so something isn&#39;t right so the body oh that&#39;s because here we passed params message and that&#39;s not actually what we want we want like the content of the message right and so all right let&#39;s reload this and then try that again and we should get test boom test all right so here is this again um so we&#39;re going to send this new thing with tests we get another test all right so test uh let&#39;s let&#39;s okay so let&#39;s let&#39;s go make a new message directly on one of these reservations so we&#39;ll pull up a reservation here and we&#39;ll go to messages and we&#39;re gonna say like this is a test from the dashboard and we click send and that should send a text to us boom all right this is a test from the dashboard super cool so now we&#39;re able to receive text messages when uh when we have a new message that&#39;s in the dashboard that is really cool there are a couple other features to uh to this notice gem though that we might want to be that we might want to enable so let&#39;s go back to the readme and just take a look so we can um we can say like oh we only want to send email if email notifications are enabled so if the user has you know told you they don&#39;t want email then you can you can stop sending them email similarly we can also ha each notification has this concept of being read or unread and so what we can do is say we actually only want to send the email unless they read the message so let&#39;s take a look at how we might handle that so if we go to the messages controller when we are on the messages controller or like when we&#39;re on the index page we can just assume that they&#39;ve read all of the messages that are in that list and so at this point what we kind of want to do is go through all of the messages and mark them as read but we don&#39;t want to mark every message as read because we only want to mark the ones that are to us where we are the recipient otherwise as soon as we send a message we&#39;re going to be marking the message we sent as read so here i think we want to say like where messages.where [Music] the the to user is current user and then we&#39;ll make like a new method mark as read we&#39;ll make a new method on the message object here so we&#39;re going to say we&#39;ll make a class method self.mark as read and mark as red is going to go through all of the related notifications for a message and mark all of them as read now in order to do that what we need to do is actually figure out which messages are related to which or which notifications are related to which messages and there is another helper has notifications or has noticed notifications so we want to add we want to call this sort of macro on the message class so that we have these other methods that are available on the message object let&#39;s let me show you what i mean so m is message.last now we can call things like m.notifications as message and that will give us a uh a resp uh result i actually don&#39;t know what type this is uh class is that okay so it&#39;s an active record relation that we&#39;re getting back with all of these messages so uh and then on that i believe we can mark several can we mark several as read i don&#39;t know uh mark as read so it seems like we might be able to just mark all of these as read directly from here mark is red no oops okay cool so that will allow us to mark all of the messages or mark all of the notifications for a given message as read now so i think we want to say something like all dot uh each and then we want to say give me all of the notifications what is it again notifications as message there&#39;s probably like a better way to do this um so that it doesn&#39;t fire like a n plus one query but i would assume that there aren&#39;t i mean there should be like at most two or three notifications per message and so this shouldn&#39;t be too expensive and then also there shouldn&#39;t be too many messages per reservation so marking them all as red i mean at most we&#39;re talking about like i don&#39;t know maybe 50 queries or something so it&#39;s not going to be huge and okay so let&#39;s see so that should work i think so let&#39;s try this out um so we&#39;re going to say yeah let&#39;s uh let&#39;s actually improve our dashboard here oh undefined method mark as read for message uh oh right we want to map that and then flatten that h i don&#39;t know let&#39;s see okay so uh from this view we actually don&#39;t have any indication of whether or not a message was read or not and read receipts are kind of annoying but let&#39;s go add those to our uh messages index um so maybe like right after the content here we can add i don&#39;t know another little thing and this will will say like um if the message uh has what is this notifications as message um first dot red at like if it&#39;s not nil then we want to mark it as red so this this red at property is part of part of the noticed thing we can use time ago a word time ago in words again so we can say like red alright let&#39;s see here we go red less than a minute ago read less than a minute ago okay so this these were all red um all right that&#39;s fine so let&#39;s go back to our reservations and find one where we are the host and not the guest and then let&#39;s go to the host host reservations uh index post reservation show let&#39;s add another link here link to messages and that&#39;s going to be like the messages path for the reservation uh reservation id we didn&#39;t add this in the last episode so now we have the the list of messages uh nil can&#39;t be converted to a time value what i tried i asked okay so let&#39;s see so what is this what does this give us um all right so that has a notification dot red at okay but it&#39;s nil why okay so if it&#39;s not nil how is it wait what okay it&#39;s nil and then i say is it not nil and it says true that&#39;s i&#39;m so confused uh okay is that nil why is it did i spell something wrong all right that gives us the notification dot red at is nil um if there is a red app is this gonna let work better okay all right so now we don&#39;t see the red at notification thing we have one message that was from us and that&#39;s good because the messages that are from us this one is from us or from the host uh wave seedjav.dev right so when we&#39;re talking about this message sent less than a minute ago there&#39;s no red receipt so that is good uh we&#39;re already we&#39;re sending messages all right that&#39;s good uh and we are um yeah we are also texting those so that is also good uh okay now what we wanna do is we to see this message the red receipt for this message so if we find the reservation r is reservation. find this thing r dot guest is wave plus guest at c job dev so let&#39;s log in as them and we should see that red um it should be then red right we should see like the red receipt or whatever so if we go to i don&#39;t know what was it 43 47 and go to messages boom read less than a minute ago so as we read it um it was marked as read so now both the guest and the host they see when it was read which is a little awkward we probably only want to show like the red receipt for the other person the other party but um at least this gives us the concept of whether or not a notification was read or not now what we want to do is talk about this like if or like unless red so we only want to maybe we only want to send the email after 15 minutes unless it was read um but this is this is kind of like a cool way that we can sort of enable or disable sending certain things based on priority so there&#39;s like another there&#39;s another example of this in here um where yeah so where we have like okay they&#39;re going to get a message and we&#39;re going to send it to the database and then if they don&#39;t read it in the dashboard after maybe after 10 minutes then we send them an email and if they still haven&#39;t read it in the dashboard after 20 minutes then we send them a text message so a couple really cool options there in terms of red receipts let&#39;s also enable this twilio thing for our host booked notification because in this case i think it&#39;s important to know that someone booked your property via text because it&#39;s like a pretty urgent thing you want to be able to get back to the guests really quickly and let them know that you are sort of like you&#39;re on it and you&#39;re excited to talk to them soon et cetera et cetera et cetera in this case we don&#39;t need this special format but we do need to pass in another param which is the message so anywhere that we&#39;re using this host reservation booked thing we need to make sure that we are that we are passing in a message now too um so we can say like new booking um and then maybe we want a little bit more detail i don&#39;t know like uh reservation.guest.email um or something maybe we also want like some dates is coming and then uh i don&#39;t know like reservation dot start date okay let&#39;s let&#39;s see if that works this hopefully this works this is gonna be cool so what we&#39;re gonna do is we&#39;re gonna go through the entire reservation flow so we&#39;re gonna look at some listings and i can&#39;t remember who i&#39;m logged in as but also yeah remember we dropped pins on the map that&#39;s so cool uh okay so if we go to maybe this like guests property and say reserve and now we&#39;re gonna pick some dates in the future maybe april 4th to the 7th and click on reserve this should be redirected to checkout and after we pay for the booking we&#39;re going to receive a a web hook notification from stripe telling us that we have a new booking and that is going to trigger this host book notification flow uh or it should at least and yeah our we have our um our web hook listener is up and running right here so we should be receiving web hook notifications as this comes in so i&#39;m going to say book uh okay so this is going to trigger several things it&#39;s going to send an email to the guest it&#39;s going to send an email to the host and it&#39;s also going to send us a text message boom new booking is coming blah blah awesome awesome awesome this is so cool uh yeah it&#39;s it&#39;s really fun to like see stuff pop up on the device and so yeah now we&#39;re sending all kinds of notifications so no one is going to be surprised when someone shows up when someone shows up at their property ready to stay ready to book so this was a really fun one twilio is pretty cool but also the notice gem really makes this pretty straightforward and simple so i guess thanks and shout out to chris oliver for building that and making that so nice if you are enjoying this series please subscribe and if you want to be notified of future episodes you can hit that subscribe button thanks so much for watching and we&#39;ll see you in the next one [Music]

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