kranzky/megahal-server

A Rails server that allows users to chat with MegaHAL

MegaHAL Server

MegaHAL Server is a Rails server that allows users to chat with MegaHAL, a learning chatterbot.

You can chat with MegaHAL online right now!

Setup

This will install redis and flyctl, along with the various Ruby gems, assuming you're running rvm or similar.

> brew bundle
> rvm use `cat .ruby-version`@`cat .ruby-gemset`
> bundle install

Development

Running the ./bin/dev script will start the Rails server and will start the ./bin/megahal-server script as well, which should be enough to get things up-and-running on your local machine.

Deployment

I deploy to fly.io with a GitHub action which does the following:

> fly deploy --remote-only

You can run MegaHAL on the free tier, but there is some additional configuration that needs to be done (for example, you will need to launch a redis instance too, using the configuration in the redis directory, you will need to attach a persistent storage volume, and you'll need to define the REDIS_URL and MOUNT_PATH secrets too). Look at the fly.toml configuration files for details.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2014-2022 Jason Hutchens. See UNLICENSE for further details.

megahal-server's Issues

Outdated for current versions of Rails

Problems arose trying to install megahal-server on current version of Rails (ver 7.0.2). Can you update the code to make it accept Rails 7.0.2?