Description

This cookbook provides a hipchat_msg resource, making it easier for chef recipies to send messages to a chat room on Atlassian's HipChat service.

Platform

Should work on any platform where Chef runs. Tested on Ubuntu.

Requirements

• Authentication token for an existing HipChat account.
• 'hipchat' gem (automatically installed by this cookbook's default recipe).

Actions

• speak - do it (the default)
• nothing - don't do it

Attributes

• room - the name of the room you would like to speak into (requied).
• token - authentication token for your HipChat account (required).
• nickname - the nickname to be used when speaking the message (required).
• message - the message to speak. If a message is not specified, the name of the hipchat_msg resource is used.
• notify - toggles whether or not users in the room should be notified by this message (defaults to true).
• color - sets the color of the message in HipChat. Supported colors include: yellow, red, green, purple, or random (defaults to yellow).
• failure_ok - toggles whether or not to catch the exception if an error is encountered connecting to HipChat (defaults to true).

Usage examples

    include_recipe 'hipchat'

    hipchat_msg 'bad news' do
      room 'The Pod Bay'
      token '0xdedbeef0xdedbeef0xdedbeef'
      nickname 'HAL9000'
      message "Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that: #{some_error}"
      color 'red'
    end

Change log

• 0.0.4 - A git mishap necessitated the release of this version. No changes to code.
• 0.0.3 - notify now defaults to true, fixed using resource name as message body when no message is specified
• 0.0.2 - Adding support for specifying message color
• 0.0.1 - First public release

Future

Consider using HTMLEntities or similar to encode messages before sending them.

License and Author

Author:: Cameron Johnston cameron@rootdown.net

Copyright:: 2012, Cameron Johnston

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