Wailingbot

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Wailingbot is an open source slack bot that implements a Wailing Wall interface.

Slack Configuration

• Create a new app https://api.slack.com/apps
• Name your app and select slash command feature
• Go back to your apps and click on the newly created
  • Save for later the Verification Token
  • Install your app to your workspace
• Configure the slash commands for your app

  Command       /wwadd
  Request URL   http://mydomain:port/quote
  
  Command       /wwget
  Request URL   http://mydomain:port/random
  

Bot Configuration

Bot gets confiured thorugh environment variables:

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE	DEFAULT VALUE
PORT	3000
SLACK_TOKEN
PG_USER	postgres
PG_DBNAME	wailing
PG_PASSWORD	postgres
PG_HOST	localhost
ADD_CMD	/wwadd
GET_CMD	/wwget

Usage

An usage example is as follows, no other format is supported:

/wwadd @slack_user_owning_quote [2017-05-22] This is a legendary quote
/wwget

When you get a random quote the response should look like:

wailingbot
This is a legendary quote, by @slack_user_owning_quote 2017-05-22

The slack command can be named whatever you like:

/my_add_command @slack_user_owning_quote [2017-05-22] This is a legendary quote
/my_get_cmmmand

To do so you have to configure it properly and make sure it points to the right endpoints in the command section:

Command       /my_add_command
Request URL   http://mydomain:port/quote

Command       /my_get_command
Request URL   http://mydomain:port/random

To build golang Wailingbot artifact

If you want to build Wailingbot right away there:

$ docker-compose build

To test Wailingbot

First of all build the docker images within the docker compose for testing:

$ docker-compose build

Run unit tests suite:

$ docker-compose run unit_tests go test ./... -tags=unit
$ docker-compose down

Run integration tests suite (this depends on the database and the wailingbot containers):

$ docker-compose run integration_tests go test ./... -tags=integration
$ docker-compose down

To run Wailingbot in a docker-compose

$ export WW_SLACK_TOKEN=abcdefghijk
$ docker-compose up -d