/hashshake

Hashrocket shakes hands 🤝

Primary LanguageRuby

🤝 Hashshake

This is an application to foster communication and camaraderie between remote teammates. It is inspired by:

RailsConf 2017: Keynote by Justin Searls

At the beginning of the week, the application randomly chooses pairs of coworkers to meet up for informal, 20-minute conversation and coffee meetings. The coworkers link up, arrange the meeting, and talk about whatever they want. Then next week, we do it again.

Usage

Add to the environment the names of your teammates, and Slack app endpoint you've configured per .env.

Set up a cron job to run the following task once a week:

$ rake notify

This will post in Slack like so:

Hashshake Example

Deployment

Push to Heroku, application name 'hashshake.'

Tests

Copy .env.example to .env, and run:

$ rake