SMS Blast using Twilio

gistfile1.txt

require 'rubygems'
require 'open-uri'
require 'csv'
require 'rest_client'

csv = open("path/to/file.csv") # I choose csv, you can choose whatever file you want to loop through
arr = []
CSV.parse(csv) do |row|
  cell_num = row[2] #row for cell number 
  home_num = row[3] #row for home_num
  arr << cell_num if cell_num #only push cell_num to array if it exists
  arr << home_num if home_num #only push home_num to array if it exists
end

def send_msg(num)
  msg = "HELLO EVERYONE" 
  sleep 1 # Give 1 sec between api requests.
  begin
   # RestClient.post 'https://{TwilioSID}:{TwilioAuthToken}@api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/{TwilioSID}/SMS/Messages', { :From => "+1415*******", :To => num, :Body => msg}  
  rescue
  end
end

arr.each {|x| send_msg "+1#{x.gsub(/\-|\(|\)|/,'').gsub(' ','')}"} #regex used to clean numbers for the twilio api. This is specific to my csv.