November 3, 2011
For the past year or so we’ve been telling people about Hubot, our amazing Campfire bot. We have a lot of fun working on Hubot. He makes us laugh, he ships our code, he is the interface to our CI server, and a whole lot more. Over the last year, he’s grown bigger and messier. So we decided to rewrite him from scratch, open source him, and share him with everyone. What we’ve come up with is a nicer implementation of the previous Hubot. One that we think a lot of our users will enjoy working with if they want to automate everyday tasks. Even better though, you can host your own Hubot on Heroku for free. Hubot scripts can be written in CoffeeScript or Javascript and he can persist data to Redis with Heroku’s free Nano addon. github/hubot Hubot is a library and an executable that wraps up all the logic of connecting to chat servers. Right now there are adapters for Campfire and IRC, but adding stuff like Hipchat or other services should be pretty trivial. The main hubot library is where the core of Hubot lives, but it just scratches the surface. github/hubot-scripts These are where Hubot’s scripts reside. This is where the magic happens. The fun stuff, the serious stuff, the weird stuff… hubot-scripts is designed as a place where we can share scripts with the entire community at large. You can browse it for interesting scripts, drop them into your own bot, and contribute your own work to the repository. At his core, Hubot simply idles in various rooms and waits for specific strings to go by in the chat.  (via Say Hello to Hubot - GitHub)

For the past year or so we’ve been telling people about Hubot, our amazing Campfire bot. We have a lot of fun working on Hubot. He makes us laugh, he ships our code, he is the interface to our CI server, and a whole lot more. Over the last year, he’s grown bigger and messier. So we decided to rewrite him from scratch, open source him, and share him with everyone.

What we’ve come up with is a nicer implementation of the previous Hubot. One that we think a lot of our users will enjoy working with if they want to automate everyday tasks. Even better though, you can host your own Hubot on Heroku for free. Hubot scripts can be written in CoffeeScript or Javascript and he can persist data to Redis with Heroku’s free Nano addon.

github/hubot

Hubot is a library and an executable that wraps up all the logic of connecting to chat servers. Right now there are adapters for Campfire and IRC, but adding stuff like Hipchat or other services should be pretty trivial. The main hubot library is where the core of Hubot lives, but it just scratches the surface.

github/hubot-scripts

These are where Hubot’s scripts reside. This is where the magic happens. The fun stuff, the serious stuff, the weird stuff… hubot-scripts is designed as a place where we can share scripts with the entire community at large. You can browse it for interesting scripts, drop them into your own bot, and contribute your own work to the repository.

At his core, Hubot simply idles in various rooms and waits for specific strings to go by in the chat.

 (via Say Hello to Hubot - GitHub)

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