Hubot

This is a version of GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool.

This version is designed to be deployed on heroku.

Playing with Hubot

You'll need to install the necessary dependencies for hubot. All of those dependencies are provided by npm except for
Redis server.
Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install redis-server
Then:

% bin/hubot

You'll see some startup output about where your scripts come from.

Loading deploy-local scripts at /Users/me/nubot/scripts
Loading hubot core scripts for relative scripts at /Users/me/nubot/src/hubot/scripts
Hubot: the Shell.
{ id: '1', name: 'Shell' }
Loading hubot-scripts from /Users/me/nubot/hubot-scripts.json
Successfully connected to Redis

Then you can interact with Hubot by typing hubot help.

hubot help

animate me <query> - The same thing as `image me`, except adds a few
convert me <expression> to <units> - Convert expression to given units.
help - Displays all of the help commands that Hubot knows about.
...

Take a look at the scripts in the ./scripts folder for examples. Delete any scripts you think are silly. Add whatever functionality you want hubot to have.

Adapters

Adapters are now external to the core of hubot, apart from Campfire and Shell. If you would like to use an external adapter you can edit the package.json to include the adapter package in the dependencies then update the Procfile to load the adapter app: bin/hubot -a <adapter> -n hubot where <adapter> is the name of the adapter with the hubot- prefix.

hubot-scripts

There will inevitably be functionality that everyone will want. Instead of adding it to hubot itself, you can submit pull requests to hubot-scripts. To enable scripts from the hubot-scripts package, add the script name with extension as a double quoted string to the hubot-scripts.json file in this repo.

Deployment

% heroku create --stack cedar
% git push heroku master
% heroku ps:scale app=1
% heroku addons:add redistogo:nano

If you run into any problems, checkout heroku's docs.

You'll need to edit the Procfile to say what the bot's name is.

Hubot also needs three environmental variables set to run and to keep him running on heroku.

Campfire Variables

Create a separate user for your bot and get their token from the web UI.

% heroku config:add HUBOT_CAMPFIRE_TOKEN="..."

Get the numeric ids of the rooms you want the bot to join, comma delimited. If you want the bot to connect to https://mysubdomain.campfirenow.com/room/42 and https://mysubdomain.campfirenow.com/room/1024 then you'd add it like this:

% heroku config:add HUBOT_CAMPFIRE_ROOMS="42,1024"

Add the subdomain hubot should connect to. If you web URL looks like http://mysubdomain.campfirenow.com then you'd add it like this:

% heroku config:add HUBOT_CAMPFIRE_ACCOUNT="mysubdomain"

Restart the bot

You may want to get comfortable with heroku logs and heroku restart if you're having issues.