Chaas is a bot for multiple messaging platforms (slack, terminal) that runs targets in Makefiles.
While this is a not the original use case for make, it does provide a simple,
powerful, cross platform language for running code. Using the Makefile you can
code your actions in any runtime (go, python, ruby, bash, etc)
Chaas takes json file (see directions.sample.json) that defines the location of the actions directory, and the directions to follow. The directions should match the targets in the Makefile. Using the directions, Chaas knows which words will trigger the given target.
When a new message comes into the channel Chaas first parses it for any directions.
If Chaas finds a direction in the message, first the options target
is called to find any variables that should be set for the target. Then, the intro
target is called to allow a message to be output. Finally, the matched direction
is called on Makefile target to produce the results and stream them to the
messaging platform.
see example/Makefile
Chaas recommends Go > 1.7.
To build a slack bot
make bin/slack
To use slack bot
Usage of ./bin/slack:
-directions string
Path to directions.json (default "directions.json")
-id string
Slack Bot User ID
-name string
Slack Bot Name (default "chaas")
-token string
Slack Bot API Key
To build a terminal bot
make bin/terminal
To cross compile slack for linux
make bin/slack-linux-amd64