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This provides an instruction to set up a hubot in Slack.

Prerequisites

• git
• node installed with nvm, which is used in .env
• terraform, brew install terraform if brew is available.
• heroku account and API key
• heorku toolbelt
• Slack account and a token for hubot

and, basically only works on MacOSX.

Launch a heroku instance with terraform

Create a file heroku.tfvars

email = "youraccount@gmail.com"
api_key = "aaaaaaaa-1111-bbbb-2222-cccccccccccc"

Let's say you already have a token of hubot for Slack, type like this.

$ VAR_FILE=heroku.tfvars \
  SLACK_TOKEN=<your-token> \
  SLACK_TEAM=<your-tema> \
  SLACK_BOTNAME=<your-botname> make apply
heroku_app.default: Creating...
  config_vars.#:                     "" => "1"
  config_vars.0.HEROKU_URL:          "" => "http://secret-island-8419.herokuapp.com"
  config_vars.0.HUBOT_SLACK_BOTNAME: "" => "secret-island-8419"
...
Outputs:

  heroku_app.default.git_url = git@heroku.com:secret-island-8419.git

SLACK_TOKEN is issued here, https://kii.slack.com/services/new/hubot

Deploy a new bot onto the heroku instance

On the assumption you've already logged in heroku

$ . .env
$ make bot push
hubot --create bot
...

This will create a new git repository to be deployed onto heroku, and will push the repository, so it's deploy.

That's it.
Hey, call the bot on your team of Slack!

Retry

$ VAR_FILE=heroku.tfvars \
  SLACK_TOKEN=<your-token> \
  SLACK_TEAM=<your-tema> \
  SLACK_BOTNAME=<your-botname> make destroy
...
$ make distclean

This cleans up all resources, local files and heroku instance.

You can start from the top.