tombot

tombot is a chat bot built on the Hubot framework. It was initially generated by generator-hubot, and configured to be deployed on Heroku to get you up and running as quick as possible.

This README is intended to help get you started. Definitely update and improve to talk about your own instance, how to use and deploy, what functionality he has, etc!

Running tombot Locally

You can test your hubot by running the following, however some plugins will not behave as expected unless the environment variables they rely upon have been set.

You can start tombot locally by running:

% bin/hubot

You'll see some start up output and a prompt:

[Sat Feb 28 2015 12:38:27 GMT+0000 (GMT)] INFO Using default redis on localhost:6379
tombot>

Then you can interact with tombot by typing tombot help.

tombot> tombot help
tombot animate me <query> - The same thing as `image me`, except adds [snip]
tombot help - Displays all of the help commands that tombot knows about.
...

Running MongoDB locally

The easiest way to do this is with docker. Run, docker run -d -p 27017:27017 mongo to start one.

Scripting

For many common tasks, there's a good chance someone has already one to do just the thing.

Restart the bot

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