Get Hubot to talk at a certain time?

Question

I'm thinking about making a Hubot clock-based notifier (think "It's 5, time to go home!" but less annoying and for a different reason). What's the best way to go about doing something like this in a Hubot script?

[edit] Here's an example using node-cron:

TIMEZONE = "America/New_York"
QUITTING_TIME = '0 0 17 * * 2-6' # M-F 5pm
ROOM = "Dev"

cronJob = require('cron').CronJob

module.exports = (robot) ->
        gohome = new cronJob QUITTING_TIME,
                ->
                        robot.messageRoom ROOM, "It's 5!  Go home!"
                null
                true
                TIMEZONE

dependencies:

"cron": "0.3.3",
"time": "0.8.2"

does this code make cronJob run automatically when Hubot launches? — Hlung, Oct 11 '12 at 09:26
I had weird problems with messageRoom not working in the cron job callback. I ended up using robot.send. — wrtsprt, Sep 11 '13 at 09:25

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '12 at 20:16

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I would use node-cron. It's pretty flexible and fits your use case well.

https://github.com/ncb000gt/node-cron

answered Jun 25 '12 at 20:16

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score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 12 '14 at 15:00

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I just stumbled upon hubot-cron.

This lets you schedule messages in hubot, but unfortunately doesn't persist jobs through restarts.

edited Dec 12 '14 at 15:00

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answered Sep 02 '13 at 06:24

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Hi, I wrote hubot-cron. It saves your jobs in `robot.brain` which means it persists data through restarts as long as you use persistent data store such as Redis. – miyagawa Apr 01 '14 at 03:01

Get Hubot to talk at a certain time?

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