How to start conversation like botkit

[torneco]

Thanks for a nice gem!

Like ask on botkit, How can I send Yes/No prompt message?

[dblock]

There's no built-in support for conversations in slack-ruby-bot. That would require storage for one. Labeling as a feature request.

[cakejelly]

This would be such a cool feature! I had to implement conversations with a bot a while back and it was a bit of a pain.

Any thoughts around storage options? By default, botkit just uses JSON files on the filesystem but gives you the option to include your own storage module

[dblock]

Something pluggable would be nice. Also check out slack-ruby/slack-ruby-bot-server#3.

[sheldonrampton]

We used redis for a simple data storage implementation with slack-ruby-bot. Our use case was a bot that lets multiple Slack users post questions using a "question" command, with a "list" command that lists all of the posted questions.

[laertispappas]

I was thinking to open a similar issue.

What I have in my mind is replicating AWS lex framework and turn slack ruby bot into a similar framework. I like the way AWS Lex works and I think we should adopt a similar behavior on top of the current codebase (no NLP yet).

@dblock what do you think?

[dblock]

I am open to this, however I think what we're all saying is that we want multiple DSLs on top of similar infrastructure. Some people want a command DSL, some people want object inheritance and others a Q&A. I think we should go into a direction where that's all possible and one day each even lives in a separate gem.