Capstone Project: Ruby: Slack Bot

nerd-bot is a bot built with the goal to automate jokes and humor mainly popular within the developers community. Most times we developers/programmers get tired writing code and since https://www.slack.com is where most of our interaction occurs, it's not uncommon to just chat with a bot cracking jokes as your teammates might still be busy, nice right? Nerd-bot scraps the web and returns you random jokes in form of images or text given the right commands in slack.

Screenshot

Built With

• Ruby
• Gems
  • slack-ruby-bot
  • Nokogiri
  • HTTParty
  • Rspec
  • Plus other dependencies, checkout the Gemfile

Getting Started

Slack Workspace

• You will need to create a new slackwork space
• Head over to http://slack.com/services/new/bot
• Give your bot a name
• Configure it as you desire and save integration
• Save the SLACK_API_TOKEN string that starts with xoxb, you will need it later
• Head over to slack and you will see your bot

Ruby Project

• Clone this project locally
• Run git checkout feat/slack-bot in the terminal
• Run bundle to install Gems and their dependencies.
• Create a .env file and paste your earlier saved SLACK_API_KEY
• Check the .env.example file on how to do it
• Run bundle exec rackup to start it the server
• Your bot should be working by now

Running Test

• Test have been built using Rspec as Test Runner and Fixture
• Test Coverage by SimpleCov
• Run rspec to run the test
• On windows run open coverage/index.html for code coverage
• On unix based systems run xdg-open coverage/index.html for code coverage

Testing on Slack

• The bot can be invited into other workspace or direct messaged
• Use @bot_username jokes_image to get programming jokes as images where @bot_username is the name of your bot
• Use @bot_username jokes_text to get programming jokes as texts
• Use @bot_username say_hello to greet the bot
• The @bot_username is optional while talking in a Direct message with the bot
• Type @bot_username help for the above commands
• Enjoy

Author

👤 Emmanuel Okello

• GitHub: @oxenprogrammer
• Twitter: @ox_emmy
• LinkedIn: LinkedIn

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

Acknowledgments

• 

• https://github.com/slack-ruby/slack-ruby-bot

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📝 License

This project is MIT licensed.