So here is the scenario. I am using Rails 4 and the Rufus Scheduler to make an app that sends SMS at a specific time in the future. So far, I got the SMS to work if I want to send an SMS by the click of a button. And I am also able to send them on a timer I set in my own code, such as the one below, which allows my message to be sent in the future. Basically, I set the timer, and when it goes off, it calls my method to send an SMS message.
This is all great but the last thing I need to do is make a method that takes user input, and puts it in the spot where the date/time/timezone are at. In my new.html.erb I am already taking in all this information, but I don't know how to take it from there and put it in the scheduler action.
This works:
scheduler = Rufus::Scheduler.new
scheduler.at '2014-02-16 5:47 PM Pacific Time' do
@sms_message.send_text_message
end
This is what I have tried already, with no luck.
Here is the model.
class SmsMessage
include Mongoid::Document
include Mongoid::Timestamps
field :from, type: String
field :to, type: String
field :body, type: String
field :year, type: String
field :month, type: String
field :day, type: String
field :timehour, type: String
field :timeminute, type: String
field :timezone, type: String
field :ampm, type: String
belongs_to :user
def set_time
puts year + month + day + " " + timehour + timeminute + " " + ampm + " " + timezone
end
def send_text_message
ts = self.user.twilio_sid
tt = self.user.twilio_token
sent_to_number = to
sent_from_number = self.user.twilio_number
message_to_send = body
@twilio_client ||= Twilio::REST::Client.new ts, tt
@twilio_client.account.sms.messages.create(
:from => "#{sent_from_number}",
:to => "#{sent_to_number}",
:body => "#{message_to_send}"
)
end
end
And here is the controller.
def create
if current_user
@sms_message = current_user.sms_messages.build(params[:sms_message].permit(:to, :from, :body))
if @sms_message.save
scheduler = Rufus::Scheduler.new
scheduler.at @sms_message.set_time do
@sms_message.send_text_message
end
flash[:notice] = "Your text has been scheduled!"
redirect_to sms_messages_path
else
render 'new'
end
else new_user
redirect_to new_user_path
end
end
And the view:
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-3"></div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<%= form_for(@sms_message) do |f| %>
To: <%= f.text_field :to, class: "form-control" %>
Body: <%= f.text_area :body, class: "form-control" %><br />
<%= f.select :month, ['01-', '02-', '03-','04-',
'05-', '06-', '07-', '08-', '09-', '10-', '11-', '12-'] %>
<%= f.select :day, ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9',
'10', '11', '12', '13', '14', '15', '16', '17', '18', '19', '20', '21', '22', '23',
'24', '25', '26', '27', '28', '29', '30', '31'] %>
<%= f.select :year, ['2014-', '2015-', '2016-', '2017-'] %>
at <%= f.select :timehour, ['1:', '2:', '3:', '4:', '5:', '6:', '7:', '8:', '9:',
'10:', '11:', '12:']%>
<%= f.select :timeminute, ['01', '02', '03', '04', '05', '06', '07', '08', '09', '10',
'11', '12', '13', '14', '15', '16', '17', '18', '19', '20', '21', '22', '23', '24',
'25', '26', '27', '28', '29', '30', '31', '32', '33', '34', '35', '36', '37', '38',
'39', '40', '41', '42', '43', '44', '45', '46', '47', '48', '49', '50', '51', '52',
'53', '54', '55', '56', '57', '58', '59', '60'] %>
<%= f.select :ampm, ['AM', 'PM'] %>
<%= f.select :timezone, ['Pacific Time', 'Eastern Time', 'Central Time',
'Mountain Time', 'Alaska Time', 'Hawaii-Aleutian Time', 'Samoa Time'] %><br /><br /><br />
<%= f.submit "Send Text Message", class: "btn btn-success" %>
<% end %>
</div>
<div class="col-md-3"></div>
I have been trying to crack this for 3+ hours with no luck. I am a beginner at Rails so sorry in advance if this question isn't formatted perfectly. Still learning. I kept getting errors with my method when I used "-", "+", and " ". So I put those things inside of the view. That is why it looks weird. What do you guys think?
In app/model/sms_message.rb
Change your set_time function to:
def set_time
year + month + day + " " + timehour + timeminute + " " + ampm + " " + timezone
end
This will return the string instead of printing it.
In your app/controllers/sms_message_controller.rb add:
def create
if current_user
@sms_message = current_user.sms_messages.build(sms_message_params)
if @sms_message.save
scheduler = Rufus::Scheduler.new
scheduler.at @sms_message.set_time do
@sms_message.send_text_message
end
flash[:notice] = "Your text has been scheduled!"
redirect_to sms_messages_path
else
render 'new'
end
else new_user
redirect_to new_user_path
end
private
def sms_message_params
params.require(:sms_message).permit(:from, :to, :body, :month, :day, :year, :timehour, :timeminute, :ampm, :timezone)
end