Building a gem-based application using Vedeu

In this tutorial, I hope to guide you through the process of building a simple application which uses the Vedeu framework as part of a gem.

We're going to build a Slack bot. This bot will simply relay the messages sent to a specific channel to your terminal to be displayed. In a future episode, I might extend this to be able to send messages back too to demonstrate other aspects of Vedeu, but one step at a time.

1) Create a gem.

Firstly, let's create an empty gem. I'm going to use my name in underscored form as the name of my bot; he is just a listener (unlike me as I'm usually quite noisy.)

bundle gem gavin_laking

Next, we edit the *.gemspec file to add vedeu and simple-slack-bot as dependencies. You may also what to update other aspects of the gemspec file here, but I'll leave that with you.

spec.add_dependency 'vedeu'
spec.add_dependency 'simple-slack-bot'

Now, run bundle, and we should see the 'Bundle complete!' message.

@todo Add more documentation.