A hubot that manage bench functions for Excella.
Currenly, benchbot can work in any channel it's pulled into, but ideally it should be set up to work only in the benchbot_dev and bench channels.
- Clone the repo.
- Run
npm install - Write code
- Run the bot locally with
HUBOT_SLACK_TOKEN=<your_token_here>./bin/hubot -a slack
You need two things for this. A Slack workspace where you can add hubot. I suggest creating your own personal Slack workspace. Click on the worspace name, go to Administration > Manage apps.
Slack will give you a token for the app. You'll use that in place of <your_token_here>. No <> of course.
If you need to add any other env vars (such as IFTTT keys for fancy lights), then you'll need to add those to your .bash_profile or prepend them to the start up command just like you do with HUBOT_SLACK_TOKEN. You must also give those envs to Joe Hunt and he will add them to Heroku (the server that makes this work).
See the hubot scripting documentation here https://hubot.github.com/docs/scripting/
The general pattern is: Listeners go in files directly under /scripts and handlers go in your channel specific folder.
Robot listeners (robot.hear) must be placed directly under the /scripts folder. They will not automatically load in any other folder.
Create a listener, and then handle it using a Coffeescript class created in your team folder. Your class should inherit from channelResponder.coffee, which will restrict your command to your channel. To make this work you must pass in the channel id into the call to super() in the constructor. See the /scripts/example.coffee script for an example.
If you don't know what your channel id is, just write the code first. Then run the command in your channel. The command will respond with a helpful message telling you what the channel id is. :-)
TBD
heroku config:set HUBOT_SLACK_TOKEN=<key>