Reddit Bot

An example bot for my talk at the Downtown Utah Ruby User Group

The bot responds to @reddit-bot reddit :subreddit [:hot|:new|:top|:rising|:controversial]

Branches

Checkout master if you want to have boiler plate and create your own commands.
Checkout 1-fetching if you want to see the bot grabbing things from /r/all
Checkout 2-subreddits if you want to see the bot grabbing things from a particular subreddit
Checkout 3-sorting if you want to see the bot sorting posts
Checkout 4-formatting if you want to see the bot formatting the messages for slack
Checkout 5-error-handling if you want to see the bot handling errors appropriately
Checkout 6-progress-indicator if you want to see the bot indicate to the user that its processing
Checkout 7-mvc if you want to see the bot refactored to use the MVC pattern offered by slack-ruby-bot

Quick Start

This bot assumes you have RVM installed. If you don't, its simple!

gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

Once you've installed rvm and installed the correct Ruby, run the following

git clone git@github.com:jasonwc/reddit-bot-example.git
cd reddit-bot-example
bundle install
cp .env.sample .env
# Get a Bot token from Slack and add it to you .env file
ruby run.rb