substitute-bot

A Reddit bot that provides the ability to search and replace parent comments. Supports Ruby regular expression syntax.

Setup

• Clone this repo
• gem install bundler
• bundle install

Bot

• ruby bot.rb

Web

• ruby web.rb

Deployment on Heroku

• heroku create
• heroku addons:create heroku-redis:hobby-dev
• Set environment variables for Reddit integrations
  • heroku config:set REDDIT_CLIENT_ID=<YOUR_CLIENT_ID>
  • heroku config:set REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=<YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET>
  • heroku config:set REDDIT_BOT_USERNAME=<YOUR_BOTS_USERNAME>
  • heroku config:set REDDIT_BOT_PASSWORD=<YOUR_BOTS_PASSWORD>
• git push heroku master

Gems

Bot

• sucker_punch (for threaded handling of comments)
• Redd (Reddit API wrapper)
• RSpec (for tests)
• redis-namespace

Web

• Sinatra
• Haml
• Sass

Testing

• bundle exec rspec

Live

You can check out the live running web frontend @ https://substitute-bot.herokuapp.com/