Hubot-Rocketchat StandUp Bot

This was built from https://github.com/RocketChat/hubot-rocketchat-boilerplate

• Using the Bot
  • Create a StandUp
    • Adding Members
    • Scheduling the Reminder
• Install Instructions (Developers)
• Configuration

This bot adds a standup functionality to any rocketchat chat room. Stand ups are initiate and members are pinged in direct messages to avoid spamming the channel. The result is posted back to the stand up room channel

Using the Bot

This bot adds up to 1 standup per chat room. If you want to use it with a private room you will need to add the bot user to the room.

Create a StandUp

In the room you want to run stand up from

bot show

This will show you the details of the current stanup in this room. If no one has joined the stand up and it has not been scheduled it will look something like this

Current Standup Settings

Members:

Currently not scheduled

Adding Members

To join the stanup, each user must run the following in the room

bot join

They should see a reply like the following

Added USERNAME to the list of standup members

After each member joins they should open a conversation with the bot and send a private message to ensure the channel is available for the bot to ping the user later

You can see the list of members joined by running the bot show command

Scheduling the Reminder

Stand up can be initiated manually from the room it is set in with

bot init

but it can also be scheduled to automate this process

bot sched

This will ask the user for days of the week and a time to run at. It will use these to set the cron-job reminder

Install Instructions (Developers)

git clone https://svn.bcgsc.ca/bitbucket/scm/dat/rocketchat_standup_bot.git
cd rocketchat_standup_bot
npm install

Create a .env file with content:

export ROCKETCHAT_URL=myserver.com
export ROCKETCHAT_USER=mybotuser
export ROCKETCHAT_PASSWORD=mypassword
export ROCKETCHAT_ROOM=general
export ROCKETCHAT_USESSL=false
export RESPOND_TO_DM=true
export HUBOT_ADAPTER=rocketchat
export HUBOT_ALIAS=bot

Adjust the content to fit your server and user credentials. Make sure myuser has BOT role on the server, if you don't know what that means, ask your server administrator to set it up for you.

Then run the bot:

npm start

On the server, login as a regular user (not the BOT user), go to GENERAL, and try:

bot help

Which will show you the available commands

Configuration

When running locally, we've used dotenv to load configs from the ./.env file. That makes it easy for setting environment variables.