Up and running in 5 minutes

0: Have Golang installed

1: Select Configure Integrations from your team menu in slack

2: Add a new Bots integration, give your bot a clever name, and take note of your Token

3:

	go get github.com/djosephsen/lazlo

4:

	export LAZLO_NAME=<whatever you named your bot in the Slack UI>
	export LAZLO_TOKEN=<your token>
	export PORT=5000
	export LAZLO_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG  # (optional if you'd like to see verbose console messages)

5:

lazlo

Now you can ping Lazlo to make sure he's alive:

Lazlo comes with a variety of simple plugins to get you started and give you examples to work from, and it's pretty easy to add your own. Making and managing your own plugins is pretty much why you're here in the first place after all.

Deploy Lazlo to Heroku and be all #legit in 10 minutes

0: Have a github account, a Heroku account, Heroku Toolbelt installed, and upload your ssh key to Github and Heroku

1: Select Configure Integrations from your team menu in slack

2: Add a new Bots integration, give your bot a clever name, and take note of your Token

3:

go get github.com/kr/godep

4: Go to https://github.com/djosephsen/lazlo/fork to fork this repository (or click the fork button up there ^^)

5 through like 27:

mkdir -p $GOPATH/github.com/<yourgithubname>
cd $GOPATH/github.com/<yourgithubname>
git clone git@github.com:<yourgithubname>/lazlo.git
cd lazlo
git remote add upstream https://github.com/djosephsen/lazlo.git
chmod 755 ./importfix.sh && ./importfix.sh
go get
godep save
heroku create -b https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go.git
heroku config:set LAZLO_NAME=<whatever you named your bot in the Slack UI>
heroku config:set LAZLO_TOKEN=<your token>
heroku config:set LAZLO_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG
git add --all .
git commit -am 'lets DO THIS'
git push
git push heroku master

At this point you can ping Lazlo to make sure he's alive.

kind of done mostly

When you make changes or add plugins in the future, you can push them to heroku with:

godep save
git add --all .
git commit -am 'snarky commit message'
git push && get push heroku

Use docker to run lazlo and be one of the cool kids in like 42 seconds

(sorry this isn't actually a thing yet)

What now?

Find out what lazlo can do out of the box Get started adding, removing, and creating plugins Learn more about configuring Lazlo (there's not much to it)

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