renderedtext / hubot

Our witty bot

Meet Ada

This is a version of GitHub's kegerator-powered life embetterment robot, hubot, that we use internally at Rendered Text.

Ada is geek and she lives on Heroku.

She loves to chat on our Slack chatroom, poke us while we're working, and that stuff, you know women (joke 😃).

TL;DR She's pretty cool.

Environment variables

To run this version of hubot + scripts that we use, you will need to set some environment variables.

=== rt-hubot Config Vars
HEROKU_URL

FOURSQUARE_CLIENT_ID
FOURSQUARE_CLIENT_SECRET

HUBOT_SLACK_TOKEN
HUBOT_SLACK_TEAM
HUBOT_SLACK_BOTNAME

REDIS_URL
HUBOT_SEMAPHOREAPP_AUTH_TOKEN
HUBOT_SEMAPHOREAPP_TRIGGER
HUBOT_GOOGLE_CSE_ID
HUBOT_GOOGLE_CSE_KEY

Testing Hubot Locally

You can test your hubot by running the following.

% bin/hubot

You'll see some start up output about where your scripts come from and a prompt.

[Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:11 GMT] INFO Loading adapter shell
[Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:11 GMT] INFO Loading scripts from /home/tomb/Development/hubot/scripts
[Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:11 GMT] INFO Loading scripts from /home/tomb/Development/hubot/src/scripts
Hubot>

Then you can interact with hubot by typing hubot help.

Hubot> hubot help

Hubot> animate me <query> - The same thing as `image me`, except adds a few
convert me <expression> to <units> - Convert expression to given units.
help - Displays all of the help commands that Hubot knows about.
...

Take a look at the scripts in the ./scripts folder for examples. Delete any scripts you think are silly. Add whatever functionality you want hubot to have.

hubot-scripts

There will inevitably be functionality that everyone will want. Instead of adding it to hubot itself, you can submit pull requests to hubot-scripts.

To enable scripts from the hubot-scripts package, add the script name with extension as a double quoted string to the hubot-scripts.json file in this repo.

Deployment

If you would like to deploy to either a UNIX operating system or Windows. Please check out the deploying hubot onto UNIX and deploying hubot onto Windows wiki pages.

Deploy to Kubernetes

You can use our manifest files in root directory to deploy Ada on your Kubernetes cluster:

• Use minikube.yml if you want to try it out on your local minikube cluster.

• We use deploy.yml to deploy Ada on GKE.

Restart the bot

You may want to get comfortable with heroku logs and heroku restart if you're having issues.