Wheelie

Wheelie is a Slack App originally written for WeAllJS. It takes care of various bits that a given slack might need, such as an /admin command, a signup request handler with request review, slack statistics, and channel management.

Getting up and running

Wheelie is a heroku app, so let's get that set up. A straightforward way is to clone this repo and go through the steps of adding a heroku remote and deploying to it.

Also, add the redis addon: heroku addons:create rediscloud:30

Config

Wheelie is also a slack app! Go to https://<your slack>.slack.com/apps/build, "Get Started with Slack Apps", then "Build an App". You're in the Slack App configuration section, let's set up Wheelie with the following:

Basic Information

In the Basic Information section of your slack app, get (and set in the environment) SLACK_CLIENT_ID, SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET and VERIFICATION_TOKEN (available after enabling Interactive Messages) from the corresponding fields. That is, heroku config:set SLACK_CLIENT_ID=...client id...

Then, run heroku config:set APP_URL=https://<appname>.herokuapp.com

OAuth and Permissions

Next, you should add the app's redirect uri to the redirect field on that page. The URI is: https://<appname>.herokuapp.com/oauth

Bot Users

Pick a valid name for your bot. Anything is fine.

Interactive Messages

Next, go to Interactive Messages and set https://<appname>.herokuapp.com/button as the Request URL.

Slack Commands

In the Slack Commands section, set up all the Wheelie commands as follows, using https://<appname>.herokuapp.com/command as the Request URL for all of them (the same endpoint is shared across all commands).

• /admin <message for admins> Notifies the admin channel.
• /help? <nothing> Displays bot help.
• /join-private <channel> Join a private channel.
• /list-private [filter] List private channels.

Other setup steps

Visit https://<appname>.herokuapp.com/install and click the "Add to Slack" button.

Channels

Create two private channels: #admin and #admin-signups and invite your bot into both of those. #admin is where /admin commands will go. #admin-signups is where web signups requests will go.

Dedicated Invite User

• Create a new slack user with the name and email you want Slack invites to be sent with (for example, MyCommunity Inviter <[email protected]>).
• Grant the user admin privileges
• Log in with the user on your browser (by visiting <yourslack>.slack.com)
• Visit https://<appname>.herokuapp.com/install-inviter?team=<team_id> -- the URL will be displayed the first time you try to accept a user anyway.