Roll-Bot

A tabletop dice rolling bot, which can easily be deployed to Heroku. You can also use the publicly hosted version. Go to the rollbot website for more information.

Configuration

The config files contain four possible entries at the moment. By default local running will use the config/local.json file and production will use config/production.json. Two example json files are provided which you can rename. The local config is gitignored to avoid exposing your testing discord bot token. It is recommended you use Heroku environment variables for production configuration.

Entries discord_token or discord_token_env_var are used to set your discord bot token. If the first one is set the second one is ignored. The first one is used to directly set the token, while the second one can be used to set the name of an environment variable that holds the token.

The same principle applies for redis_url and redis_url_env_var. Note that if neither is set the app will still run without variable environment saving.

Running Locally

Make sure you have Python 3.11 installed locally, for example using pyenv (be sure to check the Common build problems page if you run into any issues). To push to Heroku, you'll need to install the Heroku CLI. Additionally, to make user variable environments you'll need to setup redis. I suggest you don't bother with this for your local testing setup. To manage the dependencies I use poetry.

$ git clone https://github.com/thijsmie/rollbot.git
$ cd rollbot

# pyenv installing python
$ pyenv install 3.11.6
$ pyenv shell 3.11.6

# installing dependencies
$ pip install poetry
$ poetry install

# running the app
$ poetry shell
$ python runlocal.py

Your app should now be running and announce its discord username.

Deploying to Heroku

First create a new app on heroku, using free dynos is fine. Provision the RedisCloud addon, again, free tier is fine. Now set an environment variable DISCORD_TOKEN with your discord bot token and copy production.example.json to production.json.

Then in the terminal run the following commands.

$ heroku git:remote -a HerokuAppName
$ git push heroku master

Your app should now be live.