zero is a chat bot built on the Hubot framework.
You can test your hubot by running the following, however some plugins will not behave as expected unless the environment variables they rely upon have been set.
You can start zero locally by running:
% bin/hubot
You'll see some start up output and a prompt:
[Sat Feb 28 2015 12:38:27 GMT+0000 (GMT)] INFO Using default redis on localhost:6379
zero>
Then you can interact with zero by typing zero help.
zero> zero help
zero help - Displays all of the help commands that zero knows about.
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A few scripts require environment variables to be set as a simple form of configuration. Other scripts use the hubot-conf framework and can be configured either via environment variables or through Slack.
Environment variables can be set in ./env (see ./env.sample for a
template). The run.bash script sources ./env before running the bot.
You can write your own scripts in ./scripts/{name}.coffee.
If you want to install an existing Hubot plugin, make sure to npm install --save it and then add it to ./external-scripts.json.