Measurence Engineering Blog - How we send the weekly report to Slack via slack-poster

send_weekly_report.rb

require 'googlecharts'

class Slack::Report::Weekly < Slack::Report::Base

  # prepares a message for the weekly visits
  def visits
    return no_data if @weekly_report.count == 0
    attachment = {
      mrkdwn_in: ["text",
                  "title",
                  "pretext",
                  "fields"],
      text: "Visits",
      image_url: gchart_url([ @weekly_report.weekly_visits_absolute],
                              nil,
                              @weekly_report.week_names_for_period)
    }
    value = description(...)
    {
      text: %{on the week
              #{week_of(@weekly_report.year, @weekly_report.year_week)}
              there have been #{value} *visits*
              for #{@weekly_report.company.name} @
              #{store_name_and_address(@weekly_report.store_reports.first.store)}
              },
      attachments: [ attachment ]
    }
  end
end