There was already one adapter hubot-gitter but after trying to fix many missing things from it, I decided to write one from scratch.

At the time this is written, here is the advantages of this one:

• namespaced environment variables for the configuration
• handling robot.send room: 'room id or uri', 'my message'
• gathering information from users in all rooms correctly
• not handling messages that the bot itself is sending

• install Hubot and CoffeeScript: npm install -g hubot coffee-script
• create your bot and install its dependencies:

npm install -g yo generator-hubot
mkdir -p my-bot
yo hubot

• save hubot-gitter2 as dependency: npm install --save hubot-gitter2
• start the bot using the right adapter: HUBOT_GITTER2_TOKEN=<your token> ./bin/hubot -a gitter2 --name <your bot name>
  • HUBOT_GITTER2_TOKEN: get your personal token there after sign-in
  • the bot will automatically listen on the rooms it has joined.

• If your bot is not responding to mentions, make sure hubot was started with the same --name parameter as its GitHub username.

• 0.1.3 - 2014-08-20

  • Added the ability to ignore all rooms except given one(s) for testing with HUBOT_GITTER2_TESTING_ROOMS
  • Implemented a room ignore-list to not handle messages from some rooms with HUBOT_GITTER2_IGNORE_ROOMS

• 0.1.2 - 2014-08-16

  • Re-wrote everything in a cleaner, object oriented way
  • Better handling of users
  • Auto-listening on the rooms the bot's user has already joined
  • Do not overwrite brain user names, only update if not set

• 0.0.3 - 2014-08-11

  • First functional pre-version