The Lunch choosing bot

• Postgres 9.5 or later, running on localhost with the default port
• nodejs
• a config.js file (example provided in the repo)

node bin/www from the lunchtime/ directory will kick it off on port 8777 by default.

Run grunt increment-round to create a new voting round.

Run grunt reminder to tell Slack to remind people to vote for lunch.

For the Slack integration to work, you need to set slackUrl to a Slack Webhook URL, and slackRoom to a room or channel name with a hash in front of it.

Alternatively you can set everything in config.js from the environment variables:

• PORT should be the port the application is listening on.
• SLACK_URL should be the Slack integration URL for posting messages into Slack.
• SLACK_ROOM is the Slack room we post messages to. Include the # at the start of it.
• RAYGUN_API_KEY is your Raygun API key if you want errors sent to Raygun.
• DATABASE_URLis your Postgres database connection string.
• APP_URL is the url where this app is deployed.

Run grunt chooser to select a winner from the current votes. The code for this is in Gruntfile.js.

The choice table has the available choices in it. Each choice is an id and a name (this is what is displayed to the user). The ids should be unique, and shouldn't change over time. Add new choices rather than editing or removing old ones. If you don't want a choice to show up yet or until after a certain round, you can use the added_in and removed_in properties to skip those choices. added_in is the first round that a choice should appear in, and removed_in is the last one it appeared in.

To add or remove choices, you should run them in a migration script - see the db-migrations folder for examples.