I'm too stupid to make my bot tweet

[LoosGuccreen]

(EDIT: I'm also too stupid to write a title correctly, apparently)

Let's get it straight: this is not a bug, I am just stupid.

I managed to setup my bot (great!), launch it (he answers to dm and stuff), make it tweet manually using ebooks tweet <path> <bot_name>, no problem with that.

But, unless I'm impatient, brain damaged or something, I cannot manage to have the bot tweet custom message every defined time. I know how to make him do something regularly as the script shows an example using scheduler.every '30m' do #stuff end, but I just can't find how to make him tweet custom tweets (and not fixed tweets like tweet('fixed text').

So this is my question: What is the method I'm supposed to use to make my bot tweet regular ebooks message ? I'm definitely not a pro Ruby user (although I know object oriented languages paradigm). I've seen on some users something like tweet(model.make_statement) but I have an error when I try to launch the bot with this statement (he tells me model is not defined or something).

I don't really want to understand the whole program (which seems to be really good overall), just having the good keyword would be really appreciable, thanks a lot ! (and of course, sorry for the annoyance)

[negatendo]

The behaviors here might help: https://github.com/BooDoo/ebooks_example

Check out when the model path is set here: https://github.com/BooDoo/ebooks_example/blob/master/bots.rb#L68

... and used to tweet here: https://github.com/BooDoo/ebooks_example/blob/master/bots.rb#L104

My guess is that you did not set "model" to the path to your model, but those behaviors might have other helpful stuff for you too.

[LoosGuccreen]

Ok, so first, thanks for your help. I tried a bit what you suggested and added a line in the def configure part showing more or less @model=Ebooks::Model.load(<path>) and to insert the model.make_statement where I'd like him to be, but I get this error:

bots.rb:33:in 'on_startup': undefined local variable or method 'model' for #<MyBot:0xf53958> (NameError)
         from /var/lib/gems/2.1.0/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.1.6/lib/twitter_ebooks/bot.rb:373:in 'fire'
         from /var/lib/gems/2.1.0/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.1.6/lib/twitter_ebooks/bot.rb:355:in 'prepare'
         from /var/lib/gems/2.1.0/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.1.6/bin/ebooks:337:in `block (2 levels) in start'

however, I can actually get him to tweet by defining model into eatch method (which is obviously a really bad way to do it), example here on the dm part

  def on_message(dm)
     model= Ebooks::Model.load("model/loos_ebooks.model")
     reply(dm,model.make_response(dm.text))
  end

To be honest, an easy solution would be perfect for me. I tried to implement boodoo's ebooks_example, but I get a shit ton of errors (since I don't want to use Heroku)

[negatendo]

Yea you are very close. It seems the scope of the model variable is such that it's not available to your function. Somewhere you need to declare model in such a way that it's made available to your functions. It's hard to say what's going wrong without looking at your code, but read up a little on Ruby variable scope and I think you'll find your answer. You can do it! Also have you checked out this example code? It might be less convoluted than boodoo's. https://github.com/mispy/ebooks_example