An example of a fully deployable Discord bot

Local Setup

Create a .env file and add a Discord Bot token to it.

• bundle install
• brew services start redis
• bundle exec sidekiq -c 1 -v
• rails s

Going to localhost:3000 will start a sidekiq job that connects a web socket to discord and keeps it open. The index controller will only allow one of these processes to run at a time.

Heroku Deployment

• init heroku application
• include heroku reddis addon
• add ENV var REDIS_PROVIDER=REDIS_URL
• add BOT_TOKEN ENV var
• In heroku resources tab, turn on worker dyno (defined in Procfile)
• Push app to Heroku