gkosmo/bot-page

Rails app generated with lewagon/rails-templates, created by the Le Wagon coding bootcamp team. This is an example of how to quickly integrate a bot (Wit.ai) to an app

the steps: ---- on Home Page views/pages/home.html

  -> tiny window with input
     - bootstrap cards
  -> user type in Question/Comment
     - text field tag
     - stimulus event
     javascript/controllers/bot_controller.js
     - fetch
  -> question is first received by server
     - routes
    post: "pages#message"
     - controller#action
  -> interpreted w/ external service
     services/wit_bot.rb
    -  API token need to be set
    .env
    -  Service class for call
    -  method takes param message
    -  Api call
  -> answer built on the interpretation
    -  Api request-response
    -  Parse response
    -  Conditionned message reply
  -> answer is return to the window as message
    - controller variable of message from service
    - is used in partial
    views/pages/_answer_bot.html.erb
    - return json partial