Adventure Bot! w/ Improved Docs

Text adventures in Slack uses:

• Slack API
• Redis
• Bundler
• Sebastian Wittenkamp's Ruby text adventure
• wstrinz adventure-bot

Setup

Create an Incoming WebHook in Slack

1. Sign into Slack Services
2. Create a channel for your adventures
3. Customize Name of your bot
4. Expand the setup card
5. Save the hash after the last / in the Webhook URL, it is your Slack Token
6. Save Settings

Create an Outgoing WebHook in Slack

2. Select the channel you created to listen on
3. Set the URL for your message server
4. Customize Name of your bot
5. Save Settings

Set your domain and token

1. Clone this repo onto your server
2. Inside sender.rb change the url variable to your domain and Slack Token

url = 'https://<yourdomain>.slack.com/services/hooks/incoming-webhook?token=<yourtoken>'

3. Save file

Running

make sure you have ruby installed, then run the following commands

gem install bundler
bundle
bundle exec ./start.sh

you may run bundle exec ./start.sh with a daemon or as a detached screen/tmux to keep it running

Start typing inside your new channel!