INTEGRATING HUBOT WITH HIPCHAT

Creating Hipchat account for one admin and two users

FOR ADMIN

1. Goto www.hipchat.com

• sign-up (Full Name, Working Email)

• Create new team
• Click on “No thanks, I’ll send invites later”
• Click on Hipchat logo on top left corner
• Group admin → Users → Add

The above step will add users and send invitation to their mail.

FOR USERS

2. Check your mail and join the invitation

• Fill in details with working mail id
• Click on Launch the web app“

3. Installing node.js and npm

4. Installing hubot yeoman generator

5. Installing the Heroku Toolbelt

6. Clone the repository

7. Configure it

$ heroku config:add HEROKU_URL=http://.herokuapp.com

Go to hipchat home page (not chat page) of one of the user or admin Accoount settings → XMPP/Jabber info

$ heroku config:add HUBOT_HIPCHAT_JID="id from above"

$ heroku config:add HUBOT_HIPCHAT_PASSWORD="password when you created account"

Logout the hipchat account which you have just registered for robot, here in this case we chose admin account for hubot.

Check on both user hipchat account that admin green bubble turned grey ;)  

8. Deploy your changes

9. Running process

AS soon as the above process run, check the hipchat user account, bot’s bubble turned to green and available.

Go to one of the room and check by texting @<your_bot_name> help, it’ll respond with some set of instructions.

[Below are some useful commands]

Stopping process
Current process state
Checking log
Restart heroku