Hubot

This is a version of GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. This hubot is designed to work with Slack, and is based on Hubot-Slack

Testing Hubot Locally

You can test your hubot by running the following.

% bin/hubot

You'll see some start up output about where your scripts come from and a prompt.

[Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:11 GMT] INFO Loading adapter shell
[Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:11 GMT] INFO Loading scripts from /home/tomb/Development/hubot/scripts
[Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:11 GMT] INFO Loading scripts from /home/tomb/Development/hubot/src/scripts
Hubot>

Then you can interact with hubot by typing hubot help.

Hubot> hubot help

Hubot> animate me <query> - The same thing as `image me`, except adds a few
convert me <expression> to <units> - Convert expression to given units.
help - Displays all of the help commands that Hubot knows about.
...

Deploying this Hubot to Heroku

• Install heroku toolbelt

• heroku create name_for_slackbot

• heroku addons:add redistogo:nano

• Activate the Hubot service from the integration tab

• Add config variables displayed in the Setup Inststuctions box

    % heroku config:add HEROKU_URL=http://name_for_slackbot.heroku.com
    % heroku config:add HUBOT_SLACK_TOKEN=qws9WfahzatpRPKL4WGQGqpBZ
    % heroku config:add HUBOT_SLACK_TEAM=my_slack_team
    % heroku config:add HUBOT_SLACK_BOTNAME=slackbot
  

• Deploy and start the bot:

    % git push heroku master
    % heroku ps:scale web=1
  

Scripting

Take a look at the scripts in the ./scripts folder for examples. Delete any scripts you think are useless or boring. Add whatever functionality you want hubot to have. Read up on what you can do with hubot in the Scripting Guide.