Let’s Make a Chatbot in Ruby: Course Notes

These are the notes for Let’s Make a Chatbot in Ruby!

• The example code on Github.
• Your hosts:
  • Avdi Grimm (Twitter, Github)
  • Daniel Pritchett (Twitter, Github)
• Daniel’s book: Build Chatbot Interactions
• The Lita Homepage
  • Lita Documentation
• Hubot, an older alternative to Lita, written in Javascript
• The Redis data store
• An RSpec expectations cheat sheet
• Pry, an advanced Ruby read-eval-print-loop (REPL) and debugging environment
• Ruby regular expression documentation. Note in particular the documentation for capture groups, and the documentation for MatchData#[] to retrieve named captures.
• How to use local gem paths in a Gemfile
• If you want to learn more about strict vs. lenient conversions in Ruby, Avdi’s book Confident Ruby has some of the most complete coverage around.
• Sidekiq for background job processing