A simple Ruby on Rails project hooking up with the Facebook Messenger Platform(Bots for Facebook Messenger)

Created a very basic RoR project with:

$ ruby -v
ruby 2.3.0p0 (2015-12-25 revision 53290) [i686-linux]
$ bin/rails -v
Rails 4.2.5
$ bin/rails new learn_facebook_messenger_chatbot
$ bin/rails generate controller webhooks/facebook_messenger verify chat

web-hooks for integration:

$ bin/rake routes
                             Prefix Verb URI Pattern                                    Controller#Action
        webhooks_facebook_messenger GET  /webhooks/facebook_messenger(.:format)         webhooks/facebook_messenger#verify
                                    POST /webhooks/facebook_messenger(.:format)         webhooks/facebook_messenger#chat
webhooks_facebook_messenger_weather GET  /webhooks/facebook_messenger_weather(.:format) webhooks/facebook_messenger_weather#verify
                                    POST /webhooks/facebook_messenger_weather(.:format) webhooks/facebook_messenger_weather#chat

run:

$ fb_verify_token='ABC' fb_access_token='XYZ' bin/rails server

See Also:

• How To Build Bots for Messenger
• Messenger Platform: Getting Started
• Facebook Messenger bot 15 minute tutorial
• The example weather app on Wit.ai

TODO:

• Templates: Receipt, Quick replies
• Error handling
• Test cases