DEV.md

Development Environment

You may want to watch Your First Slack Bot Service video first.

Prerequisites

Ensure that you can build the project and run tests. You will need these.

• MongoDB
• Firefox
• Geckodriver, download, tar vfxz and move to /usr/local/bin
• Ruby 2.3.1

bundle install
bundle exec rake

Slack Team

Create a Slack team here.

Slack App

Create a test app here. This gives you a client ID and a client secret.

Under Features/OAuth & Permissions, configure the redirect URL to http://localhost:5000.

Add the following Permission Scope.

• Add a bot user with the username @bot.

Slack Keys

Create a .env file.

SLACK_CLIENT_ID=slack_client_id
SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET=slack_client_secret

Stripe Keys

If you want to test upgrading, premium and payment-related functions you need a Stripe account and test keys. Add to .env file.

STRIPE_API_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=pk_test_key
STRIPE_API_KEY=sk_test_key

Start the Bot

$ foreman start

08:54:07 web.1  | started with pid 32503
08:54:08 web.1  | I, [2017-08-04T08:54:08.138999 #32503]  INFO -- : listening on addr=0.0.0.0:5000 fd=11

Navigate to localhost:5000.