Gitter interaction

[Fryguy]

I did a short spike on this locally trying to use Gitter's IRC bridge and the cinch gem and it was really simple to get started. However, I ran into this issue (https://github.com/gitterHQ/irc-bridge/pull/54), and until that's in, I couldn't get the bot to actually reply. So, this is a placeholder for myself once I get back to it.

Launching it is as simple as putting it in the Procfile.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'cinch'

bot = Cinch::Bot.new do
  configure do |c|
    c.server = "irc.gitter.im"
    c.ssl.use = true
    c.nick = "miq-bot"
    c.password = '' #REDACTED
    c.channels = [
      "#manageiq/manageiq",
      "#manageiq/miq_bot"
    ]
  end

  on :message, "hello" do |m|
    m.reply "Hello, #{m.user.nick}"
  end
end

bot.start

Once we have IRC interaction, some possible follow up RFEs would be

• Allowing some of the commands we use in the GithubNotificationMonitor to be reused in Gitter (requires separation of GithubNotificationMonitor's reaction/reply half)
• New commands for chat only
  • @miq-bot status could be queue statistics or something
  • @miq-bot gif <keywords> and it will search @chrisarcand's gif list ;) 😜
• Watching #manageiq on IRC, then pinging the Gitter channel that there is activity over there
• Watching #manageiq on IRC, then pinging IRC that chat no longer occurs there and instructions to go to Gitter if they choose

[chrisarcand]

@miq-bot gif and it will search @chrisarcand's gif list ;)

Ho boy. Fair warning ⚠️ NSFW gifs are not flagged. 😄

I've been meaning to make an elixir project out of making my collection do such things.

[Fryguy]

gitterHQ/irc-bridge#54 is fixed so now this can move forward

[Fryguy]

@bdunne I realize I never shared my working prototype, so:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'cinch'

PREFIX = /^@miq-bot\s+/

HELP_MESSAGE = <<-EOF.tr("\n", "\r").chomp.freeze
My commands are:

- `hello` - Reply with hello
- `help` - Get this help message
EOF

bot = Cinch::Bot.new do
  configure do |c|
    c.server   = "irc.gitter.im"
    c.ssl.use  = true
    c.nick     = "miq-bot"
    c.user     = "miq-bot"
    c.realname = "ManageIQ Bot"
    c.password = "<token>"
    c.channels = [
      # "#manageiq/manageiq",
      # "#manageiq/miq_bot",
      "#Fryguy/test"
    ]
  end

  on :message, /#{PREFIX}hello$/i do |m|
    m.reply "#{m.message.split(PREFIX, 2).last}, @#{m.user.nick}"
  end

  on :message, /#{PREFIX}help$/i do |m|
    m.user.send HELP_MESSAGE
  end

  on :private, "help" do |m|
    m.reply HELP_MESSAGE
  end
end

bot.start

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