Slax

Slack incoming webhooks made easy. Ruby easy.

The gem provides a simple DSL for building and sending Slack incoming webhooks.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'slax'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install slax

Get an incoming webhook url by adding the integration to your team here.

To send a simple message.

url = "" # incoming webhook url

# build the message
message = Slax::SimpleMessage.build(url) do
    text "Hello from Slax" # The text to send, defaults to ""  

    # optional 
    icon_emoji ":ghost:" # give you message a nice emoji 
    channel "#general" # override the channel to send the message to
    username "Slax" # override the username
end

response = message.send # send the message, and do things with the response

# OR

message.send! # throw exception on failure

• Complicated Messages (attachments, footers, buttons etc)
• link helpers
• Tests

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ozguild/slax. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.