isabella232 / hello-dog

Our IRC/Campfire bot based on Hubot

Hello Dog!

Hello dog is a version of Github's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool

You can say hello to dog on irc.freenode.net #codeforamerica

Adapters

Adapters are the interface to the service you want your hubot to run on. This can be something like Campfire or IRC. There are a number of third party adapters that the community have contributed. Check the hubot wiki for the available ones.

If you would like to run a non-Campfire or shell adapter you will need to add the adapter package as a dependency to the package.json file in the dependencies section.

Once you've added the dependency and run npm install to install it you can then run hubot with the adapter.

% bin/hubot -a <adapter>

Where <adapter> is the name of your adapter without the hubot- prefix.

hubot-scripts

Take a look at the scripts in the ./scripts folder for examples. Delete any scripts you think are silly. Add whatever functionality you want hubot to have.

There will inevitably be functionality that everyone will want. Instead of adding it to hubot itself, you can submit pull requests to hubot-scripts.

To enable scripts from the hubot-scripts package, add the script name with extension as a double quoted string to the hubot-scripts.json file in this repo.

Deployment

Hello-dog is hosted on Heroku

If you run into any problems, checkout Heroku's [docs][heroku-node-docs].

You'll need to edit the Procfile to set the name of your hubot.

More detailed documentation can be found on the [deploying hubot onto Heroku][deploy-heroku] wiki page.

Restart the bot

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