Hubot
Hubot is your friendly robot sidekick. Install him in your company to dramatically improve employee efficiency. GitHub, Inc., wrote the first version of Hubot to automate their company chat room. Hubot knew how to deploy the site, automate a lot of tasks, and be a source of fun around the office.
Jump-starting Slack bot projects: bot-zero
To give teams a jump start we’ve created the bot-zero open source project. It solves some setup and development problems. In this blog I’ll show how to get up and running in minutes and I’ll explain some of the choices we’ve made.
Cleaning up the default Hubot Slack installation
If you set up a new Hubot using the Slack Developer Kit for Hubot you’ll get an awesome bot, but with a lot of useless stuff in it. In this blog I’ll outline all the things that can be safely cleaned up. The scripts can run on both Powershell (Windows) and Bash (Linux/Mac).
Hubot + ES6 + Promises
Lately we’ve been playing around with ChatOps at Wehkamp. We added a Hubot to our Slack channels to automate some operational jobs. It makes work more fun and way easier. As it is hosted in our own infrastructure, it can interact with our micro-services. In this article I explore how to use ES6 and a Promise to implement a call to a simple web-service.