Create a New Bot Integration

To integrate your bot with Slack, you must first create a new Slack App.

OAuth Code Grant

Once created, go to the app’s Basic Info tab and grab the Client ID and Client Secret. You’ll need these in order complete an OAuth code grant flow as described at slack-ruby-bot-server.

Using the Legacy API Token

Although OAuth is recommended, you can still generate a legacy API token for your app and use it for some interactions.

Slack.configure do |config|
  config.token = ENV['SLACK_API_TOKEN']
end

This sets a global default token. You can also pass a token into the initializer of both Slack::Web::Client and Slack::RealTime::Client or configure those separately via Slack::Web::Config.configure and Slack::RealTime::Config.configure. The instance token will be used over the client type token over the global default.

Global Settings

The following global settings are supported via Slack.configure.