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slack-ruby-client

slack-ruby-client

A Ruby and command-line client for the Slack Web, Real Time Messaging and Event APIs.

Useful to me?

  • This library will let you send messages to Slack via the Web API, send and receive messages via the Real Time Messaging API and facilitate integration with the Events API.
  • To respond to slash commands, interactive components or events, implement a web application using your favorite web framework and use this library to call the Slack Web API and to verify that events are coming from Slack.
  • To build a bot using the Real Time Messaging API, use slack-ruby-bot, which uses this library.
  • To roll out a complete service using the Real Time Messaging API with Slack button integration to multiple teams, check out slack-ruby-bot-server, which is built on top of slack-ruby-bot, which uses this library.

History

This gem is based on slack-ruby-gem, but it more clearly separates the Web and RTM APIs, is more thoroughly tested and is in active development.

Stable Release

You’re reading the documentation for the next release of slack-ruby-client. Please see the documentation for the last stable release, v2.1.0 unless you’re integrating with HEAD.

  • See versions for docs for a specific relase.
  • See upgrading when upgrading from an older version.

Installation

Add to Gemfile.

gem 'slack-ruby-client'

If you’re going to be using the RealTime client, add async-websocket. See the documentation for more information about concurrency.

gem 'async-websocket', '~> 0.8.0'

Run bundle install.