# #111 Twilio SMS API

- URL: https://superails.com/posts/rails-7-111-twilio-sms-api
- Published: 2023-02-16
- Duration: 12:13
- Access: free
- Topics: send sms, sms

Twilio makes it super easy to send SMS from your Ruby app.

In this episode we will:
- get Twilio API credentials
- get a Twilio phone number from which we will send SMS
- verify a test phone number for receiving SMS in development
- write an SmsService that we can call from anywhere in our app
- ensure that when using the SmsService we don't send SMS to a real phone number
- explore the Twilio SMS Dashboard

Episode source code: https://github.com/corsego/111-twilio-sms-api/commit/5cecefabfc2228207989677c1dd5b54b21cf9218
Based on this blogpost: https://blog.corsego.com/rails-twilio-sms-api

Don't worry, I've updated my twilio credentials. Don't forget to never expose yours!

0:00 Do you need SMS in 2023?
1:02 Install Twilio Ruby in a Rails app
2:52 Get Twilio API keys, phone number and whitelist countries
5:50 Try sending an SMS
6:22 Make Twilio SmsService generic
8:50 Send generic SMS message
9:53 Summary of code changes
11:09 Explore Twilio dashboard

## Chapters

- 0:00 Do you need SMS in 2023?
- 1:02 Install Twilio Ruby in a Rails app
- 2:52 Get Twilio API keys, phone number and whitelist countries
- 5:50 Try sending an SMS
- 6:22 Make Twilio SmsService generic
- 8:50 Send generic SMS message
- 9:53 Summary of code changes
- 11:09 Explore Twilio dashboard