Sales Bot in Rasa

Requirements

• Python 3.6 or Python 3.7 Install Python 3.7 on Ubuntu 18.04
• Docker
• Tensorflow Hardware requirements

  Note if your hardware doesn't support AVX instructions then u will have to build tensorflow from source as described here

Installation

1. Install Python. Please make sure to install Python 3.6 or Python 3.7. Rasa won't work with any other python version
   

   Windows
   You can install it from here
   

   macOS

   $ brew update
   $ brew install python3.7

   Linux

   • Follow this blog

2. Install, create and activate a Virtual Environment

   1. Install virtual Environment
      python -m pip install --user virtualenv

   2. Create a virtual environment

      Linux / macOS

      $ python3 -m venv ./venv

      Windows

      C:\> python3 -m venv ./venv

   3. Activate the virtual environment:

      Linux / macOS

      $ source ./venv/bin/activate

      Windows

      C:\> .\venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install the required packages from requirements.txt inside this virtual environment:
   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Install spacy. Ref: here

   $ pip install rasa[spacy]
   $ python -m spacy download en_core_web_md
   $ python -m spacy link en_core_web_md en

5. Train the model

   $ rasa train

Usage Instructions:

1. Activate the environment:
   • Linux / macOS: source venv/bin/activate
   • Windows: .\venv\Scripts\activate.bat
2. Open a new terminal and run actions
   • rasa run actions
3. Open a new terminal and run duckling which is used for entity extraction

   docker run -p 8000:8000 rasa/duckling
   

4. Lastly, open a new terminal to run rasa
   rasa run