Pushup Bot

Slackbot that reminds the team to do their periodic pushups.

Deployment

Built in Ruby. Can be deployed to Heroku or similar infrastructure.

Running

The following environment variables are used:

• START_TIME: The time of day that the first pushups shall be done, including time zone. E.g. "09:25 US/Eastern"
• PERIOD_MINUTES: The length of the period between sets.
• END_TIME: No notices will be posted at or after this time.
• ACTIVE_WEEKDAYS: List of weekdays that notices will be sent. Default is "MTWRF", possible values "MTWRFSU".
• SLACK_API_TOKEN
• SLACK_CHANNEL

Development

We use RSpec to describe the functionality of the system and to ensure it meets those specifications.