Nerf guns at work are great. Want to get someone's attention? Shoot them with a dart -- it works great. But eventually someone complains and the dart guns end up in a drawer somewhere. End of the fun, right? Wrong! Virtualization isn't just for servers any longer. Now you can virtualize your nerf war too!
Add lita-nerf-war to your Lita instance's Gemfile:
gem "lita-nerf-war"You don't need to configure anything to have a hyperlocal nerf war but where's the fun in that? While lita-nerf-war does provide an initial set of snarky results, you can increase the fun factor by customizing the messages by specifying your own set of messages.
Create a yaml file within your bot's directory structure and set config.handlers.nerf_war.target_file to the full path to that file:
# lita-nerf-war
config.handlers.nerf_war.target_file = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "targets.yml"))
config.handlers.nerf_war.custom_message_chance = 50
A sample yaml file might look like this:
en:
lita:
handlers:
nerf_war:
targets:
- a hit in the head.
- a shot to the heart.
- ...right in the arm.
- ouch right in the eye!
Add your own brand of wit and wisdom to the targets key.
Want to troll your coworkers? Make one of them miss most of the time by adding a specific_targets key:
en:
lita:
handlers:
nerf_war:
specific_targets:
someuser:
default:
- "Never gonna give you up\nNever gonna let you down\nNever gonna run around and desert you..."
jeff:
- ... and misses!
targets:
- a hit in the head.
- a shot to the heart.
- ...right in the arm.
- ouch right in the eye!
Note that someuser is a person's Slack username, while the target's name is whatever you want to match. On our team, we tend to refer to people by their first name, so that's how the targets are set up. Also note that someuser has a special default messages -- but you can specify more than one. The likelihood of a user's default messages being used versus one of the standard messages is controlled by config.handlers.nerf_war.custom_message_chance. The default is 50 (50%).
In a channel where your Lita bot is a member, the command nerf <user>, and your bot will reply with a shooting message and a snarky result:
nerf stewart
will produce something like:
<your user name> shoots a dart at Stewart: gun jammed
You can also specify your favorite shooting device:
nerf joe with a bazooka
will produce something like:
<your user name> shoots a bazooka at joe: ouch right in the eye!
For those really intense fire fights, you can throw a nuke:
nuke everyone
0.1.7 Too many looks of disapproval when our beloved nerf bot chimed in during general nerf talk brings this update to you. Now you need to type !nerf or !nuke to invoke the virtual nerfs.
0.1.6 Replaced nerf nuke image as source image was taken down. Removed 'scrum but' code to another plugin
0.1.5 Fixed weapon name detection. Now handles 'with a ' as well as 'with '
0.1.4 Added a 5-shot gatling gun. Triggered if the text after the target (e.g. 'with a ...') contains the word 'gatling'
0.1.3 Specified ruby version in gemspec
0.1.2 Initial public release
0.0.1 Very late night hacking sessions
0.0.0 this was a TCL script? WTF? Who does THAT?
Contributions are welcome! Here's a quick guide shamelessly cobbled together from other projects:
Fork, then clone the repo:
git clone git@github.com:your-username/lita-nerf-war.git
Make your change. Add tests for your change. Make the tests pass:
rake
Push to your fork and submit a pull request.
At this point you're waiting on me. I like to at least comment on pull requests within three business days (and, typically, one business day). I may suggest some changes or improvements or alternatives.
Some things that will increase the chance that your pull request is accepted:
- Write tests.
- Write a good commit message.