mateowh/takeaway-challenge

Use the Twilio Gem to order food

Takeaway Challenge

Solution to the Makers Takeaway Challenge - original spec: https://github.com/makersacademy/takeaway-challenge

Approach

This solution is written in Ruby, and designed to be run in IRB.

Context

This program imitates a takeaway restaurant dealing with orders from a customer, and sending them a confirmation message when they place an order.

This program is intended to be used in irb.

instructions

In this program you'll need to explicitly create instances of Shop and Order classes.

The Shop class has a show_menu method to allow users to look at available meals. The add_to_order method takes 3 arguments - the order you've created, the item as a string, and the quantity (optional - defaults to 1). This will update details on the order.

The Order class has the show_summary method to show users the details of their order, and place_order to confirm the order.

The place_order method creates a new instance of a Messenger class and attempts to send a message to a user. To do this you'll need to have 4 environment variables:

• A Twilio account SID
• A Twilio authentication token
• A Twilio number to send messages from
• A verified number to receive messages to

Next steps

There's still some things left to be done on this project, time-permitting, including:

• a method to remove/reduce items from orders
• refactoring
• more robust testing on the messenger.rb file
• more robust way to check order totals are correct, and raise errors if not