Upgrading from SimpleDesk Gem

Be sure to change your initializer and API calls from SimpleDesk to SendSonar.

SendSonar

Sonar is an SMS customer engagement platform that allows companies to have 2-way conversations with their customers over SMS - whether it's for sales, customer service, funnel abandonment, or transactional messages.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'send_sonar'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Compatibility

Works with Ruby 1.8.7 or greater

Changes

See RELEASE.md

Configuration is now done through an initializer
Support for sandbox server
When creating a customer, properties is no longer a separate param (see readme)

Setup

Initialize the gem by creating an initializer.

Your production token can be found if you log into https://sendsonar.com, click the left menu and select Settings, then Company Settings
Your sandbox token can be found if you log into https://sandbox.sendsonar.com/api_info, click on the left menu and select Settings, then Company Settings

# config/initializers/send_sonar.rb

SendSonar.configure do |config|
  if Rails.env.production?
    config.env = :live
    config.token = ENV['SONAR_PRODUCTION_TOKEN'] || 'YOUR_PRODUCTION_TOKEN'

  elsif Rails.env.staging?
    config.env = :sandbox
    config.token = ENV['SONAR_SANDBOX_TOKEN'] || 'YOUR_SANDBOX_TOKEN'
  end
end

Usage

The API currently allows sending messages and adding customers.

Sending Messages

SendSonar.message_customer(text: 'message text', to: '1234567890')

The response is a SendSonar::Message object with the following accessors:

to (phone number as string)
text
status

Status is one of "queued" or "unsubscribed". Messages with "queued" status are usually sent within seconds. Messages with "unsubscribed" status will not be sent, as customer has previously unsubscribed from API messages.

If you send a message to a new phone number the API will automatically create a new user.

#<Sonar::Message to="1234567890", text="content!", status="queued">

Adding Customers

If a customer already exists with the given phone number, that customer will be updated.

SendSonar.add_customer(
  phone_number: "5555555555",
  email: "user@example.com",
  first_name: "john",
  last_name: "doe",
  properties: { great_customer: "true" }
)

You can send an unlimited number of properties with arbitrary keys and values.

The response is a SendSonar::Customer object with the following accessors:

id
phone_number (string)
email
first_name
last_name
subscribed (boolean)
properties (hash)

Errors

There are many reasons why requests can fail. There are custom error classes to help you figure out what went wrong.

Note, all request errors inherit from SendSonar::RequestException. Therefore you can rescue all request errors with rescue SendSonar::RequestException. The current supported error classes are:

SendSonar::BadToken
SendSonar::NoActiveSubscription
SendSonar::ApiDisabledForCompany
SendSonar::RequestTimeout
SendSonar::ConnectionRefused
SendSonar::UnknownRequestError (the server return an error response that your version of the gem does not recognize.)

Support

Email api-help@sendsonar.com if you are having issues with the gem or service.

Contributing

Please file an issue on Github and have a conversation with us before creating a pull request

Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/send_sonar/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request

quigebo/send_sonar_gem