A little shell script to help develop/debug hubot scripts.

hubot-slack

#!/bin/bash

#set the hubot slack credentials
export PORT=8181
export HUBOT_SLACK_BOTNAME="hubot"
export HUBOT_SLACK_TEAM="nerdbeers"
export HUBOT_SLACK_TOKEN="my-slack-token"

PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin

set -e 

dev() {
	printf "Starting Hubot in 'DEV' mode...\n"
	printf "you must issue commands to devbot on command line. For example:\n"
	printf "devbot> devbot jira help\n\n"
	bin/hubot --name devbot
	printf "\n"

}
start() {
	printf "Starting Hubot...\n\n"
	bin/hubot --adapter slack
	echo "."

}

case "$1" in
	dev)
		dev
		;;
	start)
		start
		;;
		;;
	update)
		update "$2"
		;;
	*)
		echo $"Usage: $0 {dev|start}"
		exit 1

esac
exit 0

run against the shell with: > sudo ./hubot-slack dev
run connected to slack: > sudo ./hubot-slack start