From Ruby to Elixir

Use Req to Make Requests

Req is quite simple to use for a majority of cases. For example, you would call Req.get!("https://www.google.com") to fetch the Google home page. For more advanced use cases, Req can be customized to include custom headers, authentication, or anything that you need.

For our app, we’ll take advantage of Req.new/1 to create an HTTP client that can be used against our API. Once we have that, we’ll create a context module to use the API in our application. Let’s dive in!

Implement API-Client Module

Create a file at lib/phone_app/twilio/api.ex and type the following code:

phone_app/lib/phone_app/twilio/api.ex

defmodule PhoneApp.Twilio.Api do
  defp twilio_config do
    Application.fetch_env!(:phone_app, :twilio ...