title: Twilio::REST::RequestError: The 'To' number is not a valid phone number
body: <p>For whatever reason <a href="https://github.com/visualitypl/textris" rel="nofollow noreferrer">textris gem</a> is removing the "+". How can I stop this?</p>
  
  <pre><code>class UserTexter &lt; Textris::Base
    default :from =&gt; "+15616005697"
  
    def welcome(user)
      @user = user
      text :to =&gt; '+' + @user.number # I've also tried hardcoding "+447576912465"
    end
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>console</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>UserTexter.welcome(u)
  +447576912465 # See it has the plus in it
    Rendered user_texter/welcome.text.erb (0.2ms)
  =&gt; #&lt;Textris::Message:0x007fbbffc12ee8
   @action=:welcome,
   @content="Welcome to our system!",
   @from_name="L.T.C.",
   @from_phone="17864206788",
   @texter=UserTexter,
   @to=["447576912465"]&gt; # but then it doesn't show here
  [18] pry(main)&gt; UserTexter.welcome(u).deliver
  +[+447576912465]
    Rendered user_texter/welcome.text.erb (0.6ms)
  Twilio::REST::RequestError: The 'To' number 447576912465 is not a valid phone number. # hence why I get the error here
  from /Users/galli01anthony/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twilio-ruby-4.11.1/lib/twilio-ruby/rest/base_client.rb:125:in `connect_and_send'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>welcome_text.erb</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;Test Text&lt;/p&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I fix this? What is the root of the problem? I'm using the <a href="https://github.com/twilio/twilio-ruby" rel="nofollow noreferrer">twilio gem</a> to connect to Twilio API.</p>