Monkee Bot

Say hello to MBot, your friendly neighborhood monkee robot. A brother to hubot, he currently lives high up in the tree tops of Heroku and stays busy in the @monkee-boy HipChat server. He enjoys creating memes, sharing his knowledge of cats, monitoring twitter for mentions of MBoy, and serving up beer when needed.

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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.
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Scripting

Take a look at the scripts in the ./scripts folder for examples. Read up on what you can do with hubot in the Scripting Guide.

Deployment

% heroku create --stack cedar
% git push heroku master
% heroku ps:scale app=1

If your Heroku account has been verified you can run the following to enable and add the Redis to Go addon to your app.

% heroku addons:add redistogo:nano

If you run into any problems, checkout Heroku's [docs][heroku-node-docs].

You'll need to edit the Procfile to set the name of your hubot.

More detailed documentation can be found on the [deploying hubot onto Heroku][deploy-heroku] wiki page.

Restart the bot

You may want to get comfortable with heroku logs and heroku restart if you're having issues.