Set Up Your First Hubot

It took me far too long to get my first hubot working; when I finally sat down to get it going the process was much easier than I expected! So here’s a little guide in the hope that this helps you get started too.
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Using JIRA’s REST API to Create a Dashboard

If you read this blog often, you’ll know that I am:

  • crazy about APIs
  • living with some accessibility issues

Put these two things together and what do you get? Actually don’t answer that! Today what you get is an example of integrating with JIRA’s REST API, because their recent “upgrade” locked me out of the issue listings pages completely and I really do need to be able to see a list of bugs! Their bug editing screen is quite usable, so it’s just the list that I need here, but you could easily call their other API methods as you need to. Continue reading