This is a Slack Bot to engage users of a given Slack channel into random discussion. It picks a random user out of the Slack team members and mentions him in a given channel with a random message.

Basically, you need to have Docker Toolbox installed

In order to have the bot running you need to create a Slack Bot. Once you have one you will be able to obtain a Slack API Token. Create a local set of parameters by copying the parameters file:

cp app/config/parameters.yml.dist app/config/parameters.yml

And put your token value there

In the project root directory run the following command:

docker-compose up -d

This command will build web Docker image and run it a container with that image.

You can log into the container by typing:

docker-compose run web bash

Now you wil be signed into the container and in the project root directory.

In order to install the required dependencies, while in the container type:

composer install -n

To test the bot, while inside the container, run the command:

php app/console poke:user bot-sandbox --test

This will post the message into the #bot-sandbox channel and only mentioning the test users

In order to run the real bot run

php app/console poke:user xhq

This will pick a random user and mention him on #xhq channel

In order to run tests pleas type inside the container:

./bin/phpspec run

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