AwsSms

This gem acts as a simple wrapper for sending SMS Messages with Amazon SNS. It's as easy as adding your AWS Credentials and calling AwsSms.new.send(phone_number, message)

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'aws_sms'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install aws_sms

Usage

You must have an AWS Account Setup with SMS Enabled under your Simple Notification Service. You will need IAM Credentials that have AmazonSNSFullAccess permissions. Details below on how to load your credentials.

You must follow Amazon's requirements on sending text messages, for instance, you must provide a country code for the phone number you provide (e.g. 12225675309 where 1 is the country code) You can check Amazon's Documentation for details on any errors that are raised.

AWS Credentials

There are three ways to load your AWS Credentials:

You can initialzie AwsSms with your credentials as arguments:

sms = AwsSms.new(
  aws_default_region: 'us-west 2',
  aws_access_key_id: 'your access key',
  aws_secret_access_key: 'your secret key'
)
sms.send('15555555555', 'Some great message')

Set them through the config object. If you're using Rails you can store this in an initializer

# config/initializers/aws_sms.rb
AwsSms::Config.set_credentials(
  aws_default_region: 'us-west 2',
  aws_access_key_id: ACCESS_KEY,
  aws_secret_access_key: SECRET_KEY
)
...
# somewhere in your application
sms = AwsSms.new
sms.send('15555555555', 'Hello!')

Or you can securely store the credentials in your environment variables. This gem will search for them as follows:

# .env
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=123456
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=abc123foobarbaz
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-2
...

# somewhere in your application

sms = AwsSms.new
sms.send('15555555555', 'Foo bar baz!')

AWS SMS Attributes

You can provide Amazon SMS Attributes in a similar way. Attributes default to { 'DefaultSMSType' => 'Transactional' } if none are provided. See Amazon's Documentation on SMS Attributes to see what options are available to pass

attributes = { 
  'DefaultSenderID' => 'SomeSenderId', 'DefaultSMSType' => 'Promotional' 
}
sms = AwsSms.new(sms_attributes: attributes)
sms.send(...)

or

AwsSms::Config.set_sms_attributes(
  { 'MonthlySpendLimit' => '1000', 'DefaultSMSType' => 'Promotional' }
)

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/KidA001/aws_sms. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the AwsSms project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.