jerith / slackobot

An ocaml slackbot

slackobot

An ocaml slackbot

Features

Not much at the moment:

• slackobot message will post some text to slack.
• slackobot mesos-capacity will query a Mesos cluster for capacity information and post it to slack.

Getting set up

You will need:

• A clone of this repo.
• ocaml (4.02 or later) and opam.

Set up an environment:

• Create a fresh opam switch: opam switch -A system slackobot; eval $(opam config env)
• Pin and install slacko from github (we need slack attachment support): opam pin add slacko git://github.com/Leonidas-from-XIV/slacko.git
• Pin and install your local slackobot clone: opam pin add slackobot .

Create a slack test token at https://api.slack.com/docs/oauth-test-tokens and, if necessary, build a Mesos or DC/OS cluster so you have something to query.

Run your newly installed slackobot:

export SLACKOBOT_API_TOKEN='xoxp-sooper-seekrit-token'
export SLACKOBOT_USERNAME='slackobot'
export SLACKOBOT_CHANNEL='#slackobot'
slackobot message 'Hello humans, I am here to help.'
slackobot mesos-capacity http://cluster.example.com:5050/ --cluster-name ayaks

Hacking

If you want to hack on slackobot:

• You probably don't want it installed: opam uninstall slackobot
• You probably want test dependencies: opam install ounit qcheck
• Configure, build, run the tests: ./configure --enable-tests && make && make test

Now run your freshly built version:

export SLACKOBOT_API_TOKEN='xoxp-sooper-seekrit-token'
export SLACKOBOT_USERNAME='slackobot'
export SLACKOBOT_CHANNEL='#slackobot'
./slackobot.native message 'What exciting new features might I have?'
./slackobot.native mesos-capacity http://localhost:5050/ --cluster-name snowbird