Slack Bot Template

A mix gen template for quickly bootstrapping slack bots in elixir. If you have made bot user and have a token already then this will run out of box as long as the token in set to the proper environment variable.

Quick Start

This only works if you have a bot/token ready and are familiar with mix templates. Otherwise, skip this and please read on.

$ export SLACK_TOKEN=sOmeTOkendcnked-ewjnc
$ mix template.install gen_template_slack_bot
$ mix gen slack_bot «project_name»
$ cd «project_name»
$ mix deps.get
$ mix run --no-halt

New Project Template

mix gen slack_bot «name» [ --into «path» ] [--app[lication] «app»] [--module «module»]

Installation

This template is installed using the template.install mix task. Projects are generated from it using the mix gen task.

So, before using templates for the first time, you need to install these two tasks:

$ mix archive.install mix_templates
$ mix archive.install mix_generator

Then you can install this template using

$ mix template.install gen_template_slack_bot

Use

To create a new project run:

$ mix gen slack_bot «project_name»

To run this you will need a token from Slack in set to an environment variable:

$ cd «project_name»
$ mix deps.get
$ mix run --no-halt

«project_name» is both the name of the subdirectory that will hold the project and the name that will be given to the application. This affects entries in mix.exs as well as the names of the main file in lib/ and the skeleton test in test/. The application module name will be the camelcase version of «name».

By default the subdirectory will be created under your current directory; you can change this with the --into option:

$ mix gen slack_bot «project_name» --into some/other/dir

Variants

NOTEHave not tested with these yet

The application's start function is created in lib/«name»/application.ex, along with a basic supervisor.

You can change the name used for the application:

$ mix gen slack_bot «project_name» --app[lication] «app»

The original «project_name» parameter will be the name used for the directory, and «app» will be used when creating file names in that directory and when customizing the file contents.

Finally, you can override the name used for the application module:

$ mix gen slack_bot «project_name» --module «Module»

«Module» must be a valid Elixir module name or alias.

More Info On mix gen

You can watch a video of Dave Thomas explaining the new generator project, and how to use it.

You can also look at his projects related to project generation.