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Selbot2
IRC bot for the #selenium channel on freenode.
Database
The bot utilizes a PostgreSQL database for persisting data. Follow the installation guides for help getting setup locally.
A database needs to be created and the DATABASE_URL environment variable needs to be set. Typically, localhost is used for development:
DATABASE_URL=postgres://localhost/database
For use in production, the url should be in the form:
DATABASE_URL=postgres://user:password@host:port/database
Required tables will be genereted automatically by the app.
Startup
To run the bot locally, try:
$ bundle install
$ SELBOT_CHANNEL=#my-test-channel bundle exec ruby -I lib bin/selbot2.rb
Note that startup is for unknown reasons quite slow. Disabling plugins may or may not help this.
In production, use:
$ OPEN_ISSUE_INTERVAL=1800 bundle exec ruby -Ilib bin/selbot2.rb
For use with youtube one needs to create an API Key and set that as "youtube.conf" environment variable.