Lunch Buddy

A Slack bot, that posts chat messages containing the daily menus of specific restaurants every day.

Requirements

This application uses slack-ruby-client to integrate the slack bot. Follow their instructions on how to set it up.

You need to set the environment variable SLACK_API_TOKEN.

Installation

This application uses whenever for the cron job setup. To set up the cron jobs run:

whenever --update-crontab

Make sure that cron has access to the required environment variable SLACK_API_TOKEN.

Contributing

If you want to add a new restaurant you only need to:

1. Create the model:

app/models/restaurant/new_restaurant.rb

2. Let it inherit from BaseRestaurant

module Restaurant
  class NewRestaurant < BaseRestaurant
    def get_contents(date); end
  end
end

3. Implement the get_contents(date) method. It should return an array of strings containing the menus of the day.

def get_contents(date)
  date.friday? ? ['Fisch'] : ['Schnitzel', 'Moules et frites']
end

See app/models/restaurant/lilly_jo.rb for a working example.

In general any contribution is appreciated. To do so just:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a branch (git checkout -b new-branch)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add great new thing')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin new-branch)
5. Create new Pull Request