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This project uses Twilio's the deprecated Conversations SDK. Please check out our current Getting Started guide for Video and accompanying repository instead.

Video Customer Service in Rails

An example application implementing Video Customer Service using Twilio.

Configuration

Setting Your Environment Variables

Are you using a bash shell? Use echo $SHELL to find out. For a bash shell, using the Gmail example, edit the ~/.bashrc or ~/.bashprofile file and add:

export TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=ACxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
export TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
export TWILIO_NUMBER=+15556667777

Are you using Windows or Linux? You can read how to set variables here.

Development

Getting your local environment setup to work with this app is similarly easy. After you configure your app with the steps above, use this guide to get going locally:

1. Install the dependencies.

bundle install

2. Launch local development webserver

rails server

3. Open browser to http://localhost:3000.

4. Tweak away!

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