Run Your own Chat Bot on HipChat / Campfire

Recommended Rubies

• MRI 1.9.3
• jRuby 1.7.0

Tested

• 1.9.2-p320
• 1.9.3-rc1
• jruby-1.7.0
• jruby-1.7.2

MRI 1.8.7 recently worked, but is currently suffering from unknown exceptions

Services

• hipchat: xmppr4 works on MRI/jRuby

  • UTF-8 bugs recently fixed!
  • Huge thanks to hoxworth for his work on xmpp4r!

• hipchat-smackr: jRuby only (experimental)

  • crashes network disconnects
  • works with UTF-8

• campfire: MRI/? -- I don't think Campfire support has been tested in over a year.

Instructions

1. Copy config.yml.example to config.yml

    # config.yml
   
    ## SERVICES ##
    # Supported values: hipchat, campfire, hipchat-smackr
    service: hipchat
   
    ## HIPCHAT SETTINGS ##
    hipchat:
      jid: [email protected]
      name: Full Name
      password: <password>
      history: 3 # num of history fields to request
      rooms:
        - [email protected]
        # - [email protected]
   
    ## CAMPFIRE SETTINGS ##
    campfire:
      subdomain: subdomain  # from subdomain.campfirenow.com
      # auth_mode: Can use API key or username/password.
      # Supported values: api, username
      auth_mode: api
      api_key: api_key_goes_here  # enter if using "api" auth_mode
      username: username          # enter if using "username" auth_mode
      password: password          # also enter if using "username" auth_mode
      room: room_name             # only supports one room for campfire
      ssl: true
   
    ## BOT SETTINGS ##
    bot:
      hello: Mainframe: ONLINE
      goodbye: NO CARRIER
   
    ## PLUGIN SETTINGS ##
    enabled_plugins:
      - HipRepeater
      - RandomResponses
   
      - Archer
      - Bash
      - Futurama
      - LikeABoss
      - Olaf
      - PennyArcade
      - QuickMeme
      - WalMart
      - XKCD
      # - EpicFail
      # - FML
      # - TWSS
   

2. Add credentials to config.yml, configure plugins to load

3. [MRI] Start the ISIS Daemon in the foreground bin/isis run or in the background bin/isis start

    Usage: isis <command> <options> -- <application options>
   
    * where <command> is one of:
      start         start an instance of the application
      stop          stop all instances of the application
      restart       stop all instances and restart them afterwards
   

4. [jRuby] Start the ISIS Daemon or in the foreground bundle exec bin/isis-run.rb or in the background bundle exec bin/isis (no args yet)

• jRuby background/daemon support is new/minimal (early 2013)