KohBot

KohBot is fun for the whole Slack channel! 🤖 🎉

KohBot:

• Recieves fun culture questions from a user via DM
• Lets users opt in/out via DM
• Sends one question a day to users opted in via DM (in the morning)
• Users tell the bot their answer
• KohBot shares all the answers to the daily question in #general (or another channel)

Getting Started

This repo is using Rails version 5.1.4 and Ruby version 2.4.4.

Clone the repo and run bundle install.

Setting Up With Slack

You will need to add a bot to your workspace. Your bot needs to subscribed to events. The route to hit will be http://address-here.com/api/v1/bots. You will need to add environment variables in the file config/application.yml. DO NOT COMMIT THIS FILE.

BOT_AUTH: xoxb-1234567890-12324567890.

Replace the string past the colon (:) with your bot's auth token provided by Slack.

RESULTS_HOOK: https://hooks.slack.com/services/####/####/#####

Set RESULTS_HOOK with the webhook URL for the channel you will want your bot to post to. (#General or its own channel is recommended.)

Local Development

To run locally, start the rails server:

bin/rails s

It's recommended you run a proxy to test with Slack, such as ngrok.

./ngrok http 3000