Publishing Them as Gems

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Shows how to package chat bot skills as reusable Ruby gems using the Lita gem and its handler generator, with real code: a tiny doubler skill, a Tumblr scraper that uses Faraday and Nokogiri to answer “what’s Brad eating,” Redis-backed publisher plus an Alexa flash briefing bridge, and tests (RSpec + SimpleCov) hitting ~94% coverage. Deployment paths include Heroku, Docker, and rubygems releases via rake release; demos mostly work live though external services (Tumblr, Slack) occasionally fail.

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1. 0:00Introduction and thanks
2. 3:11Why chatbots matter
3. 7:55Lita framework overview
4. 10:27Writing a Lita skill
5. 13:17Demo: What’s Brad eating?
6. 19:46Deploying Lita bots
7. 26:52Advanced Lita skills
8. 28:59Fun and creative bots
9. 30:04Closing and resources

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