XBot
This is a version of GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool.
This version is designed to be deployed on Heroku. This bot has been configured to use the Hip Chat adapter.
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.
...
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.
external-scripts
Tired of waiting for your script to be merged into hubot-scripts? Want to
maintain the repository and package yourself? Then this added functionality
maybe for you!
Hubot is now able to load scripts from third-party npm packages! To enable
this functionality you can follow the following steps.
- Add the packages as dependencies into your
package.json npm installto make sure those packages are installed
To enable third-party scripts that you've added you will need to add the package
name as a double quoted string to the external-scripts.json file in this repo.
Restart the bot
You may want to get comfortable with heroku logs and heroku restart
if you're having issues.