Guri

Guri - Slackbot command handler powered by Elixir

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Programming language: Elixir

License: MIT License

Tags: Networking    

README

Guri

Guri was created to automate tasks and let people know about what's happening. It is a bot system that uses chat messages as commands. You can easily write command handlers to automate anything you want. Nice things you can automate (but not limited to):

• Deploy a project to a specific environment (e.g. production, staging)
• Scale a specific environment up/down
• Enable or Disable features (feature toggle)
• Create/close a Github issue

Guri is not only limited to command handling. It can also be used to automatically post useful information to a chat room.

Usage

Add Guri to your mix.exs dependencies:

defp deps do
  [{:guri, "~> 0.2.1"}]
end

Add Guri to your mix.exs applications:

def application do
  [applications: [:guri]]
end

And run:

mix deps.get

Configuration

In your config/config.exs add the following config:

# Bot adapter (currently only Slack is supported)
config :guri, :adapter, Guri.Adapters.Slack

# Configure your Slack bot
config :guri, :slack,
  bot_name: "BOT_NAME", # the one you created in Slack
  channel_name: "CHANNEL_NAME", # the name of the channel the bot is in
  url: "https://slack.com/api",
  token: "TOKEN" # Token from Slack (e.g.: abced-00000000-AASDADzxczxcasd)

# Command Handlers you want to use
#
# MyApp.Deploy is a supervised handler
# MyApp.Stat is a non-supervised handler
#
config :guri, :handlers, %{"deploy" => {:supervised, MyApp.Deploy},
                           "stat"   => MyApp.Stat}

With the described configuration, every time someone sends a deploy command, MyApp.Deploy will receive the command information. The same happens to the stat command and MyApp.Stat module.

Command Handlers

Command handlers are responsible for processing the commands published in a chat room. Using the previous example, MyApp.Deploy and MyApp.Stat are command handlers. Each command handler is able to handle a single command. A handler can be of two types:

Supervised

Supervised handlers need to keep state. You will probably use an Agent or GenServer in order to keep the state. These handlers will be started as part of the application supervision three. When defining the handler in the config.exs file, it uses a tuple like {:supervised, MODULE_NAME}.

Example of MyApp.Deploy handler:

defmodule MyApp.Deploy do
  use Guri.Handler

  def start_link do
    Agent.start_link(fn -> [] end, name: __MODULE__)
  end

  def handle_command(%{name: "deploy", args: []}) do
    send_message("Deploying all projects to production")
  end
  def handle_command(%{name: "deploy", args: [project]}) do
    send_message("Deploying `#{project}` to production")
  end
  def handle_command(%{name: "deploy", args: [project, "to", env]}) do
    send_message("Deploying `#{project}` to `#{env}`")
  end
  def handle_command(_) do
    send_message("Sorry, I couldn't understand what you want to deploy")
  end
end

Non-Supervised

Non-Supervised handlers don't need to keep state. They are just simple modules.

Example of MyApp.Stat handler:

defmodule MyApp.Stat do
  use Guri.Handler

  def handle_command(%{name: "stat", args: []}) do
    stats = StatService.get_and_process_stats()
    send_message(stats)
  end
  def handle_command(_) do
    send_message("Sorry, I couldn't understand the stat you are looking for")
  end
end

Run Test

mix test