hubot-for-hubot

hubot-for-hubot is a chat bot built on the Hubot framework for helping the Hubot community on Slack. Hubot. Hubot? Hubot!

Running hubot Locally

You can run hubot-for-hubot by running the following, however some plugins will not behave as expected unless the environment variables they rely upon have been set.

% bin/hubot

You'll see some start up output and a prompt:

[Sat Feb 28 2015 12:38:27 GMT+0000 (GMT)] INFO Using default redis on localhost:6379
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 [snip]
hubot help - Displays all of the help commands that hubot knows about.
...

Scripting

See scripts and external-scripts. See Scripting Guide for documentation on writing scripts in general.

For many common tasks, there's a a chance someone has already written one and published to npm already.

Deployment

The hubot-for-hubot deployment is managed by the @hubotio/hubot-for-hubot-operators team. The Heroku application is hubot-for-hubot. It's using redistogo for persistence.

To get running, you can use:

% bin/setup-heroku

You'll be able to use the normal Heroku commands after that. In particular, to deploy:

% git push heroku master

Restart the bot

You may want to get comfortable with heroku logs and heroku restart if you're having issues.