Sample GroupMe Ruby Bot using MeBots

Introduction

A simple GroupMe bot that reacts to messages sent within a group, designed to demonstrate the MeBots API and serve as a template for other bots.

Please see this tutorial for general information about how to set up a Python bot, including Heroku setup instructions.

Documentation of the MeBots API can be found here.

Open bot.rb in your favorite editor and find the line where the bot is instantiated:

BOT = Bot.new("your_bot_shortname_here", ENV["BOT_TOKEN"])

Replace your_bot_shortname_here with the shortname of your bot, which is visible while editing your bot on the MeBots web interface.

Then, set the BOT_TOKEN environment variable in your shell to the token available in the bot editing panel.

export BOT_TOKEN=0123456789abcdef

Or on Heroku:

heroku config:set BOT_TOKEN=0123456789abcdef