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Start your free trialJing Zhang
Courses Plus Student 6,465 PointsVideo outdated? No rmpbot.py file.
There is no rmpbot.py in the project folder.
5 Answers
Dennis O'Keeffe
32,820 PointsALRIGHT, so I just figured it out! I had the same problem when I started watching this too.
tl;dr
README.md
vague.
From the root, change to the rtmbot
folder they now have and then create the rtmbot.conf
file and plugins
folder from there. In the rtmbot
file, it should look like this:
DEBUG: True # make this False in production
SLACK_TOKEN: "<your-slack-token--follow-the-vid-for-this>"
ACTIVE_PLUGINS:
- plugins.motivation.motivation.MotivationPlugin
Where the plugins.motivation.motivation.MotivationPlugin
is the relative path the file (last .MotivationPlugin
being the class name within that file in my circumstance)
Run rtmbot
from the rtmbot
folder. Checkout Slack.
HOW DOES THIS WORK AS OF WED 10:49am NOV 16 2016 SYDNEY TIME ON PLANET EARTH?
They changed everything to run from the rtmbot
file. Basically, after you've done the installation of everything that you need eg. the correct pip install <package>
etc, then change into the rtmbot
folder and run rtmbot
to run the bot instead of the rtmbot.py
file that they used to have.
This also means that you need to create the rtmbot.conf
file and the plugins
folder etc from that rtmbot
directory.
The README.md
wasn't very helpful, so I just had to plug away until I figured out the changes they made.
Basically, inside the rtmbot
folder that they have, create your rtm.conf
file to look like this:
DEBUG: True # make this False in production
SLACK_TOKEN: "<your-slack-token--follow-the-vid-for-this>"
ACTIVE_PLUGINS:
- plugins.motivation.motivation.MotivationPlugin
Important! the .conf file looks as though it needs the ACTIVE_PLUGINS
set up to point to the plugins you want to integrate. I'm only 30min into this, but for me, plugins only seem to work once you have wrote the path from the rtmbot
directory - in the above example, the relative path to that plugin class being ./plugins/motivation/motivation.py
and then within motivation.py
have a class called MotivationPlugin
.
My Plugin file looks like so:
// inside MotivationPlugin.py
from __future__ import print_function
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from rtmbot.core import Plugin
class MotivationPlugin(Plugin):
def process_message(self, data):
if data['text'].startswith("!d"):
self.outputs.append(
[data['channel'], 'pew pew pew!']
)
I haven't gone through the API enough to debate whether or not you can write things in an easier way but you can copy that file above to test out that it works. I presume continuing on and following the plugin styles written in these tutorials will work after the initial set up.
Hope that helps at least one person save time! Tried to make it as thorough for the debugging of the set up as possible.
Like I said though, v important that you pip install
all the requirements. You should be good if you follow the vid above - although I did also pip install
things from the core.py
file etc. I think... who knows. I pip install
'd a lot.
I do remember needing to pip install virtualenv
in some cases. Note that if you have certain versions/config for pip, you may need the pip install <package> --user
flag on there (or pip3 install
it - whatever).
Robert Hemfelt
7,303 Pointsmine also has no rtmbot.py file
Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsWell, the video is definally not outdated since it was released I think 2 weeks ago.
Peter Javorkai
31,477 PointsThanks for the explorations @Dennis O'Keeffe so at this point you don't need run anything after the first video, so basically you can't test that your bot is connected, just after writing some plugins, correct?
Peter Javorkai
31,477 PointsHave you managed to do it Jing Zhang ?