Stealth bundles Sidekiq in order to process background jobs. Therefore, it is required to run Redis in order to boot up a Stealth server.

Once you have made your current working directory your Stealth bot, you can install gems:

bundle install

To boot your bot:

stealth server

You can also use stealth s. This will use the foreman gem to start the web server and Sidekiq processes together. Redis will have to be running for the server to start.

That's it! You are now running Stealth.

When developing locally, messaging services require access to your server in order to transmit user messages. We recommend downloading and using ngrok to create a local tunnel to your development machine.

1. Download ngrok
2. Start your Stealth server as detailed above.
3. Open up an ngrok tunnel to your Stealth server and port (default 5000) like this: ngrok http 5000. ngrok will output a unique ngrok local tunnel URL to your machine.

When you provide your local ngrok URL to a messaging service, you will have to add /incoming/<service>. For example:

• https://abc1234.ngrok.io/incoming/facebook
• https://abc1234.ngrok.io/incoming/twilio

More details on service specific settings can be found on the GitHub page for each service gem.