Jarvis

This is a version of GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool.

This version is designed to be deployed on the Cerebro server. The live version is accessable by the #jarvis channel on the courseshark IRC.

Playing with Jarvis

You'll need to install the necessary dependencies for hubot. All of those dependencies are provided by npm.

HTTP Listener

Hubot has a HTTP listener which listens on the port specified by the PORT environment variable.

You can specify routes to listen on in your scripts by using the router property on robot.

module.exports = (robot) ->
  robot.router.get "/hubot/version", (req, res) ->
    res.end robot.version

There are functions for GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, which all take a route and callback function that accepts a request and a response.

Testing Jarvis Locally

You can test your hubot by running the following.

% bin/jarvis

You'll see some start up output about where your scripts come from and a prompt.

[Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:11 GMT] INFO Loading adapter shell
[Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:11 GMT] INFO Loading scripts from /home/tomb/Development/hubot/scripts
[Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:11 GMT] INFO Loading scripts from /home/tomb/Development/hubot/src/scripts
Hubot>

Then you can interact with hubot by typing jarvis help.

jarvis> jarvis help

jarvis> animate me <query> - The same thing as `image me`, except adds a few
convert me <expression> to <units> - Convert expression to given units.
help - Displays all of the help commands that Hubot knows about.
...

Take a look at the scripts in the ./scripts folder for examples. Delete any scripts you think are silly. Add whatever functionality you want Jarvis to have.

Adapters

Adapters are the interface to the service you want your hubot to run on. This can be something like Campfire or IRC. There are a number of third party adapters that the community have contributed. Check the hubot wiki for the available ones.

If you would like to run a non-Campfire or shell adapter you will need to add the adapter package as a dependency to the package.json file in the dependencies section.

Once you've added the dependency and run npm install to install it you can then run hubot with the adapter.

% bin/jarvis -a <adapter>

Where <adapter> is the name of your adapter without the hubot- prefix.

hubot-scripts

There will inevitably be functionality that everyone will want. Instead of adding it to hubot itself, you can submit pull requests to hubot-scripts.

To enable scripts from the hubot-scripts package, add the script name with extension as a double quoted string to the hubot-scripts.json file in this repo.

IRC Adapter Variables

If you are using the IRC adapter you will need to set some environment variables. Refer to the documentation for other adapters and the configuraiton of those, links to the adapters can be found on the hubot wiki.

The IRC adapter requires only the following environment variables.

• HUBOT_IRC_SERVER
• HUBOT_IRC_ROOMS

And the following are optional.

• HUBOT_IRC_NICK
• HUBOT_IRC_PORT
• HUBOT_IRC_PASSWORD
• HUBOT_IRC_NICKSERV_PASSWORD
• HUBOT_IRC_NICKSERV_USERNAME
• HUBOT_IRC_SERVER_FAKE_SSL
• HUBOT_IRC_UNFLOOD
• HUBOT_IRC_DEBUG
• HUBOT_IRC_USESSL

Restart the bot

If you are on the Cerebro server, check out the repository then run restart jarvis and the jarvis bot will restart