Alpha Ordinal Matcher

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Alpha ordinals are a way of providing "quick replies" for messaging services that do not support them natively, such as SMS and Whatsapp. With handle_message, they are supported directly.
Example
Imagine you send a user this reply:
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What's your favorite color?
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Reply with:
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"A" for Red
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"B" for Blue
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"C" for Green
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"D" for Yellow
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Xip's Twilio component can automatically generate these for you. This is covered in depth in the YAML Replies docs.
The corresponding handle_message method would look like this:
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def get_response
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  handle_message(
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    'Red' => proc { current_user.update_attributes!(favorite_color: 'red') },
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    'Blue' => proc { current_user.update_attributes!(favorite_color: 'blue') },
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    'Green' => proc { current_user.update_attributes!(favorite_color: 'green') },
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    'Yellow' => proc { current_user.update_attributes!(favorite_color: 'yellow') }
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  )
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end
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With alpha ordinals, if a user types "C", then the Green match arm is automatically selected since it is the 3rd match expression (Line 5) specified in handle_message. Similarly, the user could still reply with "green" directly and that will also match the 3rd match expression (Line 5).
If a user were to type, "E", then Xip will still raise a Xip::Errors::UnrecognizedMessage exception.
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