written by: Brent Vatne
Jester is a mail friendly mail daemon that saves a bunch of great
stories and jokes and is willing to tell them to anyone who asks. He
exists in the ethereal realm of email, and does not know how to
interface with any other protocol. Once you tell him which email to
watch and how he can get access to it in config/mail_options.rb, wake
him up with bin/entertain. You should make a copy of
mails_options.rb.example and remove the .example extension and use
that as a base for your configuration - just fill in the blanks.
Now you can e-mail the address you told him to watch, and use the following commands:
In the subject line of your e-mail put: a funny story "the time I went helicopter fishing" and use the body
of the email to tell him the story. He will remember it and tell it to other
people looking to brighten up their day.
Of course, some people were born without a funny bone, and have no
desire to read anything funny. Jester thinks that's hilarious, but also
feels a duty to entertain, so he likes to remember any other type of story too. For example, maybe you heard an interesting fact and that you think Jester and his friends might like to hear. In the subject line of your email put : an interesting story "why the sky is blue"
Great, he can remember jokes that I tell him. What use is a Jester that
you tell jokes to, but that doesn't tell any to you? Ask Jester for a story
by specifying in the subject tell me something funny or perhaps tell me something interesting. I'm not judging you, Jester might be.
It's easy to teach him new tricks, just create a request class in the
requests directory, which implements the following interface:
handle - returns nil if the message subject is not handled by this
request, or an instance of itself if it is handled.
execute - performs required actions to carry out the request, returns
a Jester::Request::Response object