Decision Maker

Http triggered AWS Step Functions for decision making, which can be integrated with slack commands.

How this works

Create Emojis

• Go to your slack team, and choose Customize Your Team -> Emoji.
• Create the following emojis for dices. Related gifs can be found here.
  • dice_1
  • dice_2
  • dice_3
  • dice_4
  • dice_5
  • dice_6
• Create the following emojis for coins, apparently for two sides of coins.
  • coin_1
  • coin_2

Configure your AWS credentials

• Install the AWS CLI for your operating system.

• Configure your AWS security access keys

    aws --profile decisionmaker configure
    AWS Access Key ID [None]: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    AWS Secret Access Key [None]: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Default region name [None]: ap-southeast-2
    Default output format [None]: json
  

• Activate the decision-maker profile

    export AWS_PROFILE=decision-maker
  

Deploy serverless stack

• Deploy the project by running the following commands:

  git clone https://github.com/jaypeng2015/decision-maker
  cd decision-maker
  npm i
  npm run deploy
  

• Remember the endpoint shows in the result.

Configure slack slash command

• Go to your slack team, Custom Integrations -> Slash Command and then create a new command.
• Choose a command name, normally /roll
• Enter the API gateway endpoint as URL
• Customize other fields as you want

Try you commands

• /roll (same as /roll dice)
• /roll coin
• /roll 100 (or any numbers)