This is a set of Ruby bindings for the chat service Zulip and a sample bot built with those bindings. When The Dude hears his name, he jumps into the conversation. I built this to practice writing bindings and working with JSON.
##How to use it
Download dude_bot.rb. Get an API key and bot email address from Zulip, register your bot in a stream, and run ruby dude_bot.rb from the command line. Then sit back and enjoy.
To customize your bot, simply change the regex your bot is watching for and overwrite the #get_quotes method to supply a different set of responses. Use your bot for good, not for assholery.
##To do
- The Dude Bot likes non-sequiturs and is not very convincingly human. It would be fun to make his responses more dependent on various features of his interlocutors' messages.
- I used Net::HTTP because it's part of Ruby's standard library but would like to try out Faraday and HTTParty.
##License
WTFPB