Sending Messages to Slack with Slackdraft

Introduction

Slack is the finest messaging and chat platform to find itself entangled in the world wide web since the dot com boom. They have a free-tier, which allows for unlimited people, but integrations like Google Apps and webhooks are limited. Check them out at www.slack.com.

SlackUI

Installation

Like any other gem:

gem install slackdraft

Features

I created the gem to allow for really simple integration into Slack. Some of the features include:

Formatting Support
User(@channel and @mike) and Channel (#channel) Notification Support
Awesome Attachment Support
Command Line Utility

See examples of pre-formated alerts in the examples/formatted/.

Ruby Usage

Using the gem is very simple. Here is an example:

require 'slackdraft'
url = "https://slack/webhook/url"
slack = Slackdraft::Message.new(url)

# Url of the icon or emoji
# slack.icon_url    = "https://..."
slack.icon_emoji  = ":fire:"

# Set the bot username
slack.username    = "SlackDraft"

# Set the channel
slack.channel     = "#general"

# Set text
# Or you can pass text in as an array
# slack.text        = ["Your message here!", ">_*And can have* formatting_"]
slack.text         = "Your message here! _*And can have* formatting_"

# Send the message
slack.send!
  #-> true/false

For more examples, see the examples/ directory.

Command-line Usage

Seriously, it's just as simple. Instead of using curl, use this:

slackdraft -u mike \
    -c "#slackdraft" \
    -m "This is our *formammted message*" \
    https://hooks.slack.com/services/xxxxxxx

Note: The CLI version does not support Slack Attachments

Help text

$ slackdraft -h
Usage: slackdraft [options] url

Slack with less Kurt Russell

v0.7.7

Options:
    -h, --help                       Show command line help
        --version                    Show help/version info
    -c, --channel CHANNEL            Channel to send message to
    -u, --username USER              User to send message as
    -m, --message MESSAGE            Message to send
    -e, --emoji EMOJI                Emoji to prefix message with
    -i, --icon ICON                  Icon to prefix message with