We’re going to take an example Rails application and replace the existing message sending code with Textris to see how it can tidy up our application. For this blog post, we’ll use a tutorial on sending instant lead alerts as our base. The application is a landing page for real estate. When a user expresses interest in a house, the real estate agent is instantly alerted about it via SMS. This application is written using Rails 4, but Textris works just as well with the latest Rails 5 too.