Slack Kickerbot

A german bot for slack to manage an upcoming table football session.

Options in Slack

When you added the bot to slack with a name like "kicker", you have the following options.

Register for the next session

/kicker +1

Immediately after four players are registered, they get a notification to go to the table. They also get a warning, if a session has started in the last half hour.

Unregister for the next session

/kicker -1

List all registered users for the next session

/kicker list

Clear the list of registred users

/kicker reset

Get help

/kicker help

Setup to run server locally

Install all dependencies

npm install

Start local server

npm start

Hosting kickerbot on OpenShift Gear

Add Custom Environment Variables to OpenShift Gear

Example: NODE_PATH=${OPENSHIFT_HOMEDIR}app-root/repo/config:${OPENSHIFT_HOMEDIR}app-root/repo/app/controllers

 echo -n ${OPENSHIFT_HOMEDIR}app-root/repo/config:${OPENSHIFT_HOMEDIR}app-root/repo/app/controllers > ~/.env/user_vars/NODE_PATH