bbonislawski / plusone

plus one as a service

Arkency's PlusOne Slack Bot

This project is quick implementation for plusone bot. It is like giving +1 points on message board.

Example usage:

You can also +1 any string or even an emoticon. We don't limit it to just the valid usernames on Slack. One usecase is to create a custom Slack emoticon for the people and then use the emoticons when +1'ing. This makes a nice visual effect.

Setup

1. Deploy application on publicly available server. E.g. Heroku
2. Remember about setting up database
3. Run migration: rake db:migrate
4. Get URL of your application.
5. Setup Outgoing WebHooks on Slack Integrations page
6. Add environmental variable with your Slack API key:
7. You can generate key here: https://api.slack.com/web
8. Set environmental variable called SLACK_API_TOKEN

About

This repository is funded and maintained by Arkency. Check out our other open-source projects.

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