Build your own robot

Who?

Christoffer Niska

CTO at Nord Software

Full-stack developer

Why build a robot

• Minimize overhead
• Adds transparency
• Automate workflow
• Because it's fun

What is Hubot?

• Scriptable chat client
• Robot framework
• Written in CoffeeScript
• Built at GitHub

Architecture

• Robot
• Brain
• Adapters
• Messages

Adapters

• Flowdock, HipChat, IRC, Partychat, Talker, Twilio, Twitter, XMPP, GTalk, Yammer, Skype, Jabbr, iMessage, Hall, ChatWork, QQ, AIM, Slack, Lingr, Gitter, Typetalk, Fleep, Let's Chat
• Custom adapters

Scripts

• External scripts
• Hubot scripts

Demo time

• Bootstrap project with generator-hubot
• Run Hubot locally
• Add some scripts
• Deploy to Heroku

My robot, Acolyte

• Chat bot for Twitch.tv
• Does everything from performing searches to remembering things
• Hosted on Heroku
• Data persistence via Redis Cloud
• Available at http://acolyte.io
• Open-source, code available at http://github.com/crisu83/acolyte

Best practices

• Project structure
• Adapters
• Scripting
• Routing

Questions?

Thank you.

Email christofferniska@gmail.com

GitHub http://github.com/crisu83

Twitter @Crisu83