Sphinx

Sphinx is a Slack bot which helps storing and presenting questions and answers.

The idea of Sphinx is that when it is invokes with @sphinx on Slack, it can search for past questions and give you the answered if they have been answered or stores your new questions and your peers' answer for future inquires.

Sphinx uses Elixir-slack, please check their documentation for Slack-related operations.

To start Sphinx, you'll need a Slack API token which can be retrieved by following the Token Generation Instructions or by creating a new bot integration or if your Slack workspace already has one for this application, contact the responsible person for the Token.

Installation

If available in Hex, the package can be installed by adding sphinx to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:sphinx, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and published on HexDocs. Once published, the docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/sphinx.

Start Application

Sphinx is started automatically with mix run --no-halt

Invoke Sphinx

Start the application and on Slack, make sure your channel has already have the bot installed, start message with @sphinx to invoke the bot.

Example:

@sphinx How do I open an Elixir shell?