jasonwc / reddit-bot-example

An example Slackbot for the Utah Ruby User Group

Reddit Bot

An example bot for my talk at the Downtown Utah Ruby User Group

The bot responds to @reddit-bot reddit :subreddit [:hot|:new|:top|:rising|:controversial]

Branches

• Checkout master if you want to have boiler plate and create your own commands.
• Checkout 1-fetching if you want to see the bot grabbing things from /r/all
• Checkout 2-subreddits if you want to see the bot grabbing things from a particular subreddit
• Checkout 3-sorting if you want to see the bot sorting posts
• Checkout 4-formatting if you want to see the bot formatting the messages for slack
• Checkout 5-error-handling if you want to see the bot handling errors appropriately
• Checkout 6-progress-indicator if you want to see the bot indicate to the user that its processing
• Checkout 7-mvc if you want to see the bot refactored to use the MVC pattern offered by slack-ruby-bot

Quick Start

This bot assumes you have RVM installed. If you don't, its simple!

gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

Once you've installed rvm and installed the correct Ruby, run the following

git clone [e-mail]:jasonwc/reddit-bot-example.git
cd reddit-bot-example
bundle install
cp .env.sample .env
# Get a Bot token from Slack and add it to you .env file
ruby run.rb