tombell

It's actually fairly simple to get running locally, I'll take a look at improving the documentation.

1. Download the latest version from the downloads section

2. Install dependencies with `npm install`

3. Export any environment variables for your adapters and/or scripts

4. `bin/hubot -a <adapter>`

That's as simple as it is to run in a terminal. You can use many things to manage the actual process e.g. Foreman/Upstart/Forever.

I am continually trying to help improve the deployment and documentation of Hubot, and I even created https://hubot-factory.herokuapp.com that makes it really easy to get up and running on Heroku.

Understandable. But surely you would have a fall back way to deploy given your main way doesn't work? I can deploy my apps via Hubot, but I can also deploy them without Hubot because I have an abstraction that Hubot uses to deploy my apps. And as far as I know GitHub have also something similar in place.

A bug in any piece of software is going to cause issues, Hubot isn't an exception.

Wait, no tests? Think some should be added to be brutally honest.

News just in: cool and fun side project doesn't do things the 'serious' way.

Hubot doesn't "require" Redis, don't load the `redis-brain.coffee` script. Problem solved.

Hubot is a framework for building your own useful things on top of it. Sure it doesn't provide a billion and one ways to do useful thing, you add those yourself. If it doesn't work for you, don't use it simple as.

Given it is a fun side project a company can use, I don't think the concept of "production" or "development" comes into it. You just run it. Plenty of people have run it without issues, and anyone that have had issues has been helped to have them resolved. Feel free to send a pull request to improve documentation rather than just slate it :).

Hubot is what YOU make it, not what you can just download and hope it brings useful things to your team.

GitHub pull requests.

Siri meet Hubot - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3156221

Note: it's been merged into upstream now - https://github.com/github/hubot

That's just not _serious_ enough for a name :)

PHP, Python and Java don't have a 'lol' operator!

Wonder if the author has considered checking out http://vagrantup.com/ unless it does a bit too much for what they're after.

I would just like to clarify for people that it doesn't monitor links you send out. It's the opposite, it ranks links that people are tweeting and appearing in your Twitter timeline.

Yes I'm that Tom Bell, and I meant fabric! Lack of sleep, I'll update when I get home. Cheers for noticing.

The questionnaire is for a little bit of research for a project I want to work on, and I'm looking for how people are currently doing certain things in their development workflow which will help decide initial features for the project I'm working on. I will also publish results sometime next week.