It's a simple gem to send messages through Telegram to a user or a group/channel.

To use it, you need and Telegram API KEY (a bot key) and a Chat ID.

The API KEY you can get building a new bot through @BotFather. Just send a Telegram message to @BotFather and follows the instructions. An API KEY looks like this: 5490951233:AAFZH99VRQuIOH-qweL1fwATf3kna2eBQSE.

Use another Telegram Bot @RawDataBot to find your own Chat ID or a group/channel Chat ID.

Add to your Gemfile

gem "telegram_simple_messenger", github: "shayani/telegram_simple_messenger"

Then run

bundle install

Create a initializer file to set the default API KEY and CHAT ID

# config/initializers/telegram_simple_messenger.rb

TelegramSimpleMessenger.default_api_key=MY_API_KEY
TelegramSimpleMessenger.default_chat_id=MY_CHAT_ID

Simple call the service:

TelegramSimpleMessenger.send_message("Hello world!")

You can overwrite the default API KEY and CHAT ID passing them as arguments:

TelegramSimpleMessenger.send_message("Hello world!", ANOTHER_API_KEY, ANOTHER_CHAT_ID)

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/telegram_simple_messenger.

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