After Michael Hartl's tutorial on rails, I'm trying to build a call tracking app, to learn more rails and Twilio.
So far I've managed to create --
- Authentication
- Integration With Stripe
- Every User who registers automatically gets a Twilio Subaccount
- Users Can Search for Phone Numbers, And Buy them
(This has been done with 20 Stackoverflow questions in the last 5 days!)
Now, What I would like to do is to actually create the functionality for recording call data via Twilio.
They have a php tutorial here : http://www.twilio.com/docs/howto/call-tracking
I'm having trouble conceptualizing how I'm going to make this work. I.e What Combination of Controllers/Actions will I need to route calls through a twilio number, and receive the information?
So far, I have 3 models
Plan Model
# name :string(255)
# max_phone_numbers :integer
# max_minutes :integer
# price :integer
has_many :users
User Model
# name :string(255)
# email :string(255)
# twilio_account_sid :string(255)
# twilio_auth_token :string(255)
# plan_id :integer
# stripe_customer_token :string(255)
belongs_to :plan
has_many :phones
Phone Model
# campaign_ :string(255)
# twilio_number :integer
# original_number :integer
# user_id
belongs_to :user
Now, I'm thinking of having a new model, called Phone_data. The Phone Model than has_many Phone_datas. I could than use the association to show data on a particular phone.
Possible New Model: phone_data
#Data that twilio can save to each phone(duration of call, etc )
#phone_id
#belongs_to phones
My question is, does the phone_data model make sense, and more importantly, how do you think the Controllers are going to look like, to achieve the functionality to
Lead dials a Twilio number and Twilio POSTs information to your application
Application saves Twilio call information to the proper phone_data association
The application sends TwiML instructions to Dial the original_number
Lead and agent have a conversation until one of them disconnects
Twilio requests the Dial action URL and sends information about the second call leg
Here's the code that they use for PHP
