Installing Hubot on Mac OS X Lion 10.7

Github has just released Hubot to the public (Say Hello to Hubot).

I have installed it on my MBP running Max OS X 10.7.2

Instructions:

Download and install Node.js & npm – sites.google.com/site/nodejsmacosx
Download and install Redis – redis.io/download
I just used homebrew for this ‘brew install redis’. If you don’t have it, just manually install Redis by following their instructions.

Set Redis to run on startup. Run the following commands from terminal.

    mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
    cp /usr/local/Cellar/redis/2.2.12/io.redis.redis-server.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
    launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/io.redis.redis-server.plist

Download Hubot – github.com/github/hubot/downloads
Run ‘npm install’ from terminal
Run hubot using ‘bin/hubot’ from the downloaded hubot directory.

Example usage:

Result in browser:

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Mutant says:

January 23, 2012 at 10:12 pm

Well that was interesting. I got a hubot connected to my irc server, then into my campfire server.

Nice tutorial.
1. oughton says:
  
  January 24, 2012 at 1:18 am
  
  Thanks 🙂 Glad it helped out!
N. Heinrichs says:

February 20, 2014 at 5:48 am

You can also run Hubot as a launchctl service (it will handle restarting for you, logging to /var/log/system.log, etc.)

Save the following (change PATH, etc. accordingly) to ~/LaunchAgents/com.my.hubot.plist and load with launchctl as described above and you’re all set!

(go.sh is just a simple shell script to setup some Hubot-specific environment vars and run ./bin/hubot)

KeepAlive Label com.my.hubot ProgramArguments /bin/sh -c export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.1.0/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin; /Users/user/workspace/hubot/go.sh RunAtLoad WorkingDirectory /Users/user/workspace/hubot

-Nate
N. Heinrichs says:

February 20, 2014 at 5:53 am

Oops, comment ate the XML tags.

Try: https://gist.github.com/nheinric/9107715
1. oughton says:
  
  February 20, 2014 at 8:48 am
  
  Thanks for the tip man!!
Christopher Froehlich says:

February 28, 2014 at 1:51 am

I’m googling for help getting Hubot installed on my Mac, and your post is determined to stay at the top of the results. It’s a long shot, but I thought it can’t hurt to ask.

Have you had any experiencing installing Hubot recently? I’ve tried on both Mac and Windows. Following your steps, I get successfully to the execution of bin/hubot, at which I am greeted with:

WARNING The HUBOT_AUTH_ADMIN environment variable not set INFO Data for brain retrieved from Redis

followed by nothing. No further content, and the Hubot is unresponsive. I get identical behavior on Mac and Windows–and most variations of googling the errors resolve to GitHub commits.

If you know any resources for starting/troubleshooting a Hubot install in 2014, let me know.
1. Christopher Froehlich says:
  
  February 28, 2014 at 1:59 am
  
  (facepalm) Nevermind. As usual, as soon as I ask a question out loud, the solution becomes obvious. Hubot was running just fine, I just wasn’t prefixing subsequent commands with hubot . D’oh!

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