What's this?

• this is the very Ruboty
• expected to deploy to Heroku, but you can execute on any environment

Prepare

• you need to prepare .env file
• the sample .env file is here
• install gems
  • $ bundle install --path vendor/bundle

How to deploy to Heroku

• it is easy to deploy to Heroku
  • 1. create app in Heroku
  • 2. git push heroku master or integrate Heroku with your GitHub repository
• app released, already Ruboty is running!
• if the dyno of Ruboty stops, you scale it

Gems

• ruboty
• ruboty-twitter
• ruboty-google_image
• additionally, many gems for Ruboty exist

Tips

• Ruboty refers the environment variables for configuration
  • so you should use Procfile with foreman or dotenv gem
• as a general rule, the logic of bot must be implemented in gem file
  • however, you can specify the logic file with --load option as below

$ bundle exec ruboty --load my_ruboty_logic.rb

• so in my case, I create the main file to load, which includes other logic files
  • if I wanna modify existing gem file's logic, I override it in the loaded file
• the name of the bot can be defined by environment variable
  • as ROBOT_NAME
  • the default bot name is ruboty
• the operation methods
  • message.reply(reply_content)
    • message is the object of the message which the user says
    • this method executes do reply (basic behavior)
  • message.from_name
    • message is the object of the message which the user says
    • this method returns from username
• the example statement of replying
  • message.reply("@#{message.from_name} these are your beers! 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻")

NOT GOOD

• the test codes aren't written
• the exception handling isn't written
  • so if the exception occurs, Ruboty stops all operations

LICENSE

• MIT LICENSE