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I like the idea of teaching a chat bot to run various commands for you. Not only is it faster (one place to go), it probably makes it easier to teach new people
by phillco 15y ago
I like the idea of teaching a chat bot to run various commands for you. Not only is it faster (one place to go), it probably makes it easier to teach new people the ropes. ("How do we do x?" "Tell Hubot to do it.")
- rtomayko 15y agoThis is exactly why Hubot was created in the first place. An excerpt from the original project README: This is Hubot, a Campfire chat bot in node.js. The goal is to make common systems stuff seem less like black magic by turning frequently performed manual processes into simple commands and making those interactions visible to the team via Campfire. Benefits: • Fast access to server logs and machine information when something goes wrong. • Everyone sees how common tasks are performed. • Interactions are logged and available in campfire transcripts. • Let's us do stuff from the phone with Ember when AFK. • Can paste squirrel pics and stuff like that. For new people starting at GitHub, they can kind of just lurk in the chat room for a couple days to get a feel for how most types of things are done because people are issuing Hubot commands all the time. It's really powerful. Way more powerful than we suspected. EDIT: Formatting.
- ethank 15y agoHow do you do the "who's here?" in hubbot? of all the things when I'm managing teams, knowing physical locations of people was always the pain.
- willcodeforfoo 15y agoI believe it reads MAC addresses of connected machines to the wireless router.
- askedrelic 15y agoEver going to release the source for hubot? I just digging through github for campfire bots and would love another repo to pull idea from!
- sifi 15y agoSo I'm guessing that you are giving your bot a pub/priv key to get stats?
- sifi 15y agoSo I'm guessing that you are giving your bot a pub/priv key to get stats?
- minikomi 15y agoI saw the hubot presentation at ruby kaigi in Japan.. Looks fantastic and fun. Hubot open the door!
- jonursenbach 15y agoI wrote a Campfire bot in NodeJS that can accept arbitrary commands. Have been using it here at gdgt for a while now. It's pretty nifty. https://github.com/jonursenbach/node-smores https://github.com/jonursenbach/node-smores