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BlockKit Helper

Open saraid opened this issue 5 years ago • 8 comments

Hello, I've spent a few hours putting together what I think is a fairly good prototype for composing BlockKit-based messages in Ruby. Currently, it has what I personally need from it for my own project, and no tests or meaningful docs. That's adequate for my personal project, but not for contributing to something bigger.

I'd like to gauge how much interest there would be in integrating my stuff into slack-ruby-client. (Alternatively, I could look into releasing it as a separate gem that can merely plug into slack-ruby-client.) From that, I figure I could decide how much work to put in to finish fleshing out all the other classes and writing an adequate test suite and documentation for the whole thing.

Current progress is over here: https://github.com/slack-ruby/slack-ruby-client/compare/master...saraid:saraid/slack-blockkit-helper

saraid avatar Mar 28 '20 05:03 saraid

I think Block Kit is its own thing, since it doesn't depend on the Slack API in any way. So I vote for a separate project. I would call it slack-block-kit (to match the Block Kit spelling) and would be happy to host that inside the slack-ruby organization.

dblock avatar Mar 28 '20 11:03 dblock

Oh, I like the sound of that. What would be involved?

saraid avatar Mar 28 '20 20:03 saraid

I can just make a repo for you and make you admin.

Before I do that, have you seen https://github.com/CGA1123/slack_block_kit-ruby?

dblock avatar Mar 28 '20 22:03 dblock

Ooh, I have not. I think that I personally prefer my DSL, but they've definitely gotten further along in fleshing it out to be generally useful.

saraid avatar Mar 28 '20 23:03 saraid

Hey @saraid, happy to have a look at the DSL and making improvements! The one currently implemented is quite verbose, so anything to cut it down would be a benefit 😄

CGA1123 avatar Mar 31 '20 16:03 CGA1123

Does slack-ruby-client not support all the chat.postMessage? I am trying to create a block message but I can't seem to send username with chat_postMessage

sicktastic avatar Mar 31 '20 19:03 sicktastic

Does slack-ruby-client not support all the chat.postMessage? I am trying to create a block message but I can't seem to send username with chat_postMessage

It supports all, including username.

dblock avatar Mar 31 '20 22:03 dblock

@CGA1123 I've put up my work so far at https://github.com/saraid/slack-block-kit ; feel free to steal ideas or techniques from there. I'd be happy to explain anything that's unclear in it.

saraid avatar Apr 01 '20 02:04 saraid