Gordify

Gordify is a chat bot that helps you organize lunch-out plans for your slack team.

It has been built with howdy's botkit framework and is ready for you to use at the following URL: https://gordify.herokuapp.com.

Bot interactions

Once you add the Gordify to any channel within your slack's workspace your team members can interact with it:

• When someone says @gordify start, the bot will prepare a lunch plan and will ask people out for lunch: Ey! who is going to have lunch out today?.
• When someone says @gordify yo and there's a lunch plan prepared, the bot will include the person in the plan and will reply with: Pointed @<username> 😉
• When someone says @gordify stop, and there's a lunch plan the bot will stop accepting people and it will organize them in groups (maximum group size is seven) and assign leader to each group, e.g.

someone:
  @gordify stop
gordify:
  Group 1: @helen,@peter,@susan,@george
  Leader: @susan

  Group 2: @claire,@maria,@mark,@hugo
  Leader: @maria

Slack App Setup

First, run ngrok http 3000 this will give an URL that we will need to allow slack to communicate with your bot.

Then, create a new slack app following docs at https://api.slack.com/slack-apps.

Grab your app client id and secret, and start setting up the bot in development, then come back when ready.

Make sure to enable the following features in your slack app:

• Bot User: Name for your bot
• Permissions: Use <YOUR NGROK URL>/oauth as your redirect URL.
• Events Subscriptions:
  • Use <YOUR NGROK URL/slack/receive> as webhook URL.
  • Subscribe to bot events: app_mention, message.channels, and message.im.

Development

You will need the following:

• NodeJS V8
• MongoDB
• Ngrok (or similar)
• A slack app (see below)
• Yarn (optional)
• NVM (optional)

Then you can install it with:

$ git clone https://github.com/anxhe/gordify
$ cd gordify
$ yarn install
$ echo -e "MONGO_URI=mongodb://localhost/gordify_dev\nclientId=<YOUR SLACK CLIENT ID>\nclientSecret=<YOUR SLACK CLIENT SECRET>" > .env

Now you can start it with as follows:

$ yarn run dev

Then visit http://localhost:3000 and click on 'Add to Slack' button and authorize bot to joing your Slack's workspace.

NOTE: By default gordify runs on PORT 3000, this can be changed in .env file.

Tests

$ yarn run test