From Ruby to Elixir

See Your App in Action

An SMS app needs two parties to make a conversation. Because this is a mock API, you’ll have to talk to yourself. The MockServer app includes a way to reply to messages, but it requires a new route to be created. Let’s add that and then use it from end to end.

Create the Webhook Controller

Create lib/phone_app_web/controllers/webhook/twilio_controller.ex and add the following code:

phone_app/lib/phone_app_web/controllers/webhook/twilio_controller.ex

defmodule PhoneAppWeb.Webhook.TwilioController do
  use PhoneAppWeb, :controller

  def sms(conn, params) do
    persist_message(params)

    conn
    |> put_resp_content_type("text/xml")
    |> send_resp(200, incoming_sms_response())
  end

  defp persist_message(params) ...