A voting bot created with Node
Slack users can now start a poll and vote in a slack channel, using the Slack API, specifically Outgoing Integrations. Users are able to enter these commands in the room:
start poll What's for Lunch?
This allows voting to begin. People can then "write in" a choice by voting for an item. Other people can vote for the same phrase (case insensitive).
vote pizza
If there is not already a vote for Pizza, a new option for Pizza is created. If there already is a vote for Pizza, this increments the tally for Pizza.
The bot will then respond with the results of the vote so far:
vote-bot 2:49pm
Current Poll: What's for Lunch?
Results:
Chinese: 5
Indian: 4
Pizza: 2
Greek: 1
At the end of the voting session, someone is able to close the poll by entering this in the channel:
close poll
To run this in terminal:
redis-server
export NODE_ENV=development
node server.js
After the first run, you can simply run
node server.js
To test this in terminal:
npm test
- Install node
sudo npm install- Install redis locally - instructions here http://redis.io/topics/quickstart
- See "To run this in terminal" above