Simple_Slack_Bot

This is easy way to implement your first slack bot in ruby use slack-ruby-bot gem.

Installation

$ git clone git@github.com:mgleon08/simple_slack_bot.git

Setup

slack bot token

Registering the bot to get SLACK_API_TOKEN https://my.slack.com/services/new/bot

youtube token

Get YOUTUBE_API_TOKEN from https://console.developers.google.com

configure

copy .env_example to .env

SLACK_API_TOKEN=[copy you apply for slack token]
YOUTUBE_API_TOKEN=[copy you apply for youtube token]

giphy

If you want to show gif, you can add WITH_GIPHY= in .env.

Started

foreman start

default command in slack

Commands:
  @<bot> - Show about information
  @<bot> help - Show help information
  @<bot> youtube <query> - Searches YouTube for the query and returns the video embed link.

Customize

• simple_slack_bot/main_bot/commands/[yourfile] Bot trigged word

module MainBot
  module Commands
    class Help < SlackRubyBot::Commands::Base
      command 'help' do |client, data, _match|
        client.say(channel: data.channel, text: MainBot::HELP, gif: 'help')
      end
    end
  end
end

• simple_slack_bot/main_bot/supports/[yourfile] Bot Support features

module MainBot
  HELP = <<-HELP.freeze
    *Commands:*
      *@<bot>* - Show about information
      *@<bot> help* - Show help information
      *@<bot> youtube <query>* - Searches YouTube for the query and returns the video embed link.
  HELP
end

It have three way to match word match, comman, scan

Deploy

# create new heroku project
heroku create

# push heroku
git push heroku master

# env config setting
heroku config:add SLACK_API_TOKEN=[YOUR_ SLACK_API_TOKEN]

# env config remove
heroku config:remove SLACK_API_TOKEN

# log
heroku logs --tail

# scale
heroku ps:scale web=2

uptimerobot To prevent dormancy

More information

See below to get more information

• slack-ruby-client
• slack-ruby-bot
• slack-ruby-bot-server