Ruby Voice Quickstart
Build a simple Ruby application that answers a call and plays a message to the caller.
You're ready for this quickstart if you've got the following:
A free trial account
A registered application
A configured FreeClimb Number
Your tools and language installed:
Clone your quickstart
For this quickstart, clone the repository for Ruby Getting Started Tutorial using GitHub's interface or git in the command line.
git clone https://github.com/FreeClimbAPI/Ruby-Getting-Started-Tutorial.git
Make your local server publicly accessible
The fastest way to start testing your FreeClimb application is to temporarily make your local server publicly accessible through a tunneling service. We'll use ngrok to do this. Start by downloading ngrok. Unzip the file to install, then open your terminal and navigate to the directory where you've unzipped ngrok. Use the following command to start a HTTP tunnel on port 80.
./ngrok http 80
Once you run ngrok you should receive a response with a public URL, that looks something like this:
ngrok by @inconshreveable
Tunnel Status online
Version 2.0/2.0
Web Interface http://127.0.0.1:4040
Forwarding http://92832de0.ngrok.io -> localhost:80
Forwarding https://92832de0.ngrok.io -> localhost:80
Connnections ttl opn rt1 rt5 p50 p90
0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
The Forwarding URLs point to your local server. Save the URLs and go on to the next step.
Configure your application's endpoints
Now that you've got a public URL you're ready to configure your application's endpoints. We'll be configuring the voiceUrl using your ngrok URL and the route reference /voice
.
Go to the Apps page in your dashboard. You should see your registered FreeClimb app..

Your Apps page with your registered app
Open its App Config, and you'll see its application ID, alias, and some options for URL configuration. Enter your ngrok URL into the voiceUrl field, and add the route /voice
at the end of the URL.
https://YOUR-URL.ngrok.io/voice
When you're done the App Config should look something like this:

Example of a completed App Config.
Save your updated App Config.
Run your app
Once you've updated your App Config you're all ready to run your app! Run the quickstart application with the following command:
ruby server.rb
Once the quickstart app is running, dial your configured FreeClimb number. If everything is set up right, you should hear the message "Hello, world!" and then the call will end.
Congratulations! You've just made your first voice calling application!
Updated over 1 year ago