/pairmotron_bot

Primary LanguageElixir

PairmotronBot

A Slack Bot which pairs users together on demand.

Installation

  • Make sure postgres is installed and set the following environment variables:
    • PG_USER - name of postgres user that can create tables
    • PG_PASSWORD - password for that postgres user
  • Get a Bot User OAuth Access Token. See https://api.slack.com/bot-users for details on how to get this.
    • Set the SLACK_PAIRMOTRON_BOT_USER_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable to this API key.
  • Fetch elixir dependencies
    • mix deps.get
  • Create and migrate the database
    • mix ecto.setup
  • Install javascript dependencies
    • cd assets && npm install

Usage

This is also a phoenix server. Start with:

mix phx.server

If everything is wired up properly you should see "Successfully connected to Slack as <Your bot name>" in the console.

You can also visit localhost:4000 from your browser, but this doesn't do anything special at the moment.