what is the proper way to send attachments?

[slack-ruby]

what is the proper way to send attachments?

[dblock]

The RealTime client doesn't support attachments, from https://api.slack.com/rtm:

However the web client should allow you to do that. I tried and it didn't work, then I found slackapi/node-slack-sdk#12. You need to to_json the attachments property.

Now the canonical example works:

.chat_postMessage(
  channel: ...,
  text: 'Hello World',
  as_user: true,
  attachments: [
        {
            fallback: "New ticket from Andrea Lee - Ticket #1943: Can't rest my password - https://groove.hq/path/to/ticket/1943",
            pretext: "New ticket from Andrea Lee",
            title: "Ticket #1943: Can't reset my password",
            title_link: "https://groove.hq/path/to/ticket/1943",
            text: "Help! I tried to reset my password but nothing happened!",
            color: "#7CD197"
        }
    ].to_json

I think slack-ruby-client should do this for you, I opened https://github.com/dblock/slack-ruby-client/issues/20.

[gconklin]

Yep! That worked, thanks for digging that up. I've been using your framework for a few months now and it has saved me a bunch of time. Thanks!