secret-santa

Send a text message to let everyone know their Secret Santa recipient!

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'secretsanta'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install secretsanta

First, head on over to Twilio and get a phone number with texting capabilities. You can then run secretsanta from the command line (see below).

Example:

$ secretsanta -a ACCOUNT_SID -t AUTH_TOKEN -f FROM_NUMBER -p PARTICIPANTS_FILE

Alternatively, set the following environment variables:

• TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID
• TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN
• TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER

The participants file is a JSON file, containing an array of people going to your event. It needs to be formatted as follows:

{
  "participants": [
    {
      "name": "John Doe",
      "number": "+1 (123) 456-7890",
      "disallow": [
        "Jane Doe"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

The disallow array is optional, and contains an array of people the participant is not allowed to be paired with.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.

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