Slackbotsy example

This is an example deployment of slackbotsy, using sinatra to listen to an outgoing webhook on Slack.

There are some example scripts and helpers to get you up and running with your new ruby bot.

Install

$ git clone https://github.com/rlister/slackbotsy_example.git
$ cd slackbotsy_example
$ bundle install

Test running the code

Run the server in one window:

$ OUTGOING_TOKEN=123 bundle exec shotgun

and in another window run a test query to botsy:

$ OUTGOING_TOKEN=123 bin/test botsy ping
{"text":"pong"}

Congratulations, botsy replied to you. Botsy will only respond to messages with a matching OUTGOING_TOKEN.

Test sending data to slack

Setup an Incoming Webhook in Slack:

• go to https://your_team.slack.com/services/new
• add Incoming Webhook, choose default channel in which you would like botsy to post (this will be overridden per message later)
• copy the URL from the integration; it will look something like: https://hooks.slack.com/services/NOQU9ISI6/YAIJIECH4/DISHEINGOHYAE6AHNG3PIEK6

Re-run the server with your incoming webhook:

$ INCOMING_WEBHOOK=https://hooks.slack.com/services/NOQU9ISI6/YAIJIECH4/DISHEINGOHYAE6AHNG3PIEK6 \
OUTGOING_TOKEN=123 \
bundle exec shotgun

and test botsy's say command:

$ OUTGOING_TOKEN=123 bin/test botsy say hello world
{"text":""}

This time botsy didn't return a response, but should have posted hello world to the default channel you configured for your incoming webhook. If nothing appeared, check your webhook is correct.

Test receiving data from slack

To receive data, your botsy will need to be listening on a publically-accessible port. Either run this on a public server, or setup some local tunnel, for example using https://ngrok.com/.

Setup at least one outgoing webhook:

• go to https://your_team.slack.com/services/new
• add Outgoing Webhook:
• choose a channel for botsy to listen
• add your URL for botsy (for example your ngrok forwarding URL)
• copy the outgoing token (which will look something like Vupohshohj5xeTee3ohthe6n)

Run the botsy server with your outgoing token:

$ INCOMING_WEBHOOK=https://hooks.slack.com/services/NOQU9ISI6/YAIJIECH4/DISHEINGOHYAE6AHNG3PIEK6 \
OUTGOING_TOKEN=Vupohshohj5xeTee3ohthe6n \
bundle exec shotgun

Now type botsy ping into the channel you chose above, and botsy should respond in the channel.

Multiple channels

You must choose between having botsy listen to all channels with a trigger word, or listen to all messages in a specific channel. To listen to all messages in multiple channels you can add a separate outgoing webhook for each channel, and pass all tokens to botsy as a list:

OUTGOING_TOKEN=Vupohshohj5xeTee3ohthe6n,Cupai9viQuaexi6ohPhahrie

Deploy to Heroku

$ heroku login
$ heroku create
Created http://mystic-wind-83.herokuapp.com/ | git@heroku.com:mystic-wind-83.git
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku config:set OUTGOING_TOKEN=Vupohshohj5xeTee3ohthe6n
$ heroku config:set INCOMING_WEBHOOK=https://hooks.slack.com/services/NOQU9ISI6/YAIJIECH4/DISHEINGOHYAE6AHNG3PIEK6

Now create your Outgoing Webhook as described above, using your new herokuapp URL.

Deploy with Docker

Coming soon.