Bot replies to same Tweet every time script runs

[amrit]

How do I make sure the bot doesn't reply to the same tweet every time?

The following loop replies to tweets it has already replied to each time the script runs.

replies do |tweet|
  reply "Hi #USER#, thanks for your interest.", tweet
end

[muffinista]

Can I see your whole script?
On Sep 9, 2012 1:27 AM, "Amrit Ayalur" notifications@github.com wrote:

How do I make sure the bot doesn't reply to the same tweet every time?

The following loop replies to tweets it has already replied to each time
the script runs.

replies do |tweet|
reply "Hi #USER#, thanks for your interest.", tweetend

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/8.

[amrit]

Sure thing!

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'chatterbot/dsl'

verbose


replies do |tweet|
  reply "Hi #USER#, thanks for your interest.", tweet
end

[muffinista]

When you run this, do you get any errors? Also, are you using a database to store your config or is it in a YAML file?

[amrit]

I don't get any errors. I'm not storing my config anywhere - should I?

[muffinista]

Yeah, I'm actually confused as to what is happening here. I just tested your code, and it runs fine with a proper config (see https://twitter.com/echoes_bot/status/247765604021465088 for the tweet). I would recommend that you run chatterbot-register and create a new bot from scratch, and see if that helps.

[staringispolite]

@muffinista I have this same problem. I assume it's because the bot's config isn't written to file or DB like you said above. How would I configure that? (Sorry if this is a standard Ruby thing - not new to programming, but new to Ruby)

EDIT: Got it working. In case anyone in the future is in my position, here's what worked.

• Make a mysql database and user for your bot; give that bot user all privileges for that database (and only that database unless you're feeling lucky)
• Save any edits to your bot.rb and bot.yml files in a temporary place and delete the originals.
• Re-create the skeleton with ./bin/chatterbot-register -d <mysql URI here>
• Re-auth and re-enter your bot data. You should see mysql info in the output.
• Make sure your new .yml now has a line for :db_uri:. If not, add it.
• Merge changes back to bot.rb
• Remove or comment out the no_update line in bot.rb
• Run it twice with debug on; in the bot's output, make sure the "check for replies since ___" number updates

You should see some output like "storing config to database -- you don't need local file anymore"

(Note that you'll still need the .yml file to tell it the db_uri, otherwise it'll prompt for API_KEY and such all over again)

[muffinista]

Glad you got it working! I actually removed db support in the 2.0 version of chatterbot -- it was difficult to use and maintain.

[staringispolite]

@muffinista Neat! Does it persist to the YML file in 2.0? I'd actually prefer that IMHO, just couldn't see how to get that working.