Lita vs Nestor

Overview

Lita

Stacks25

Followers38

Votes18

Nestor

Stacks1

Followers8

Votes0

Lita vs Nestor: What are the differences?

What is Lita? ChatOps for Ruby. Lita is a chat bot written in Ruby with persistent storage provided by Redis. It uses a plugin system to connect to different chat services and to provide new behavior. The plugin system uses the familiar tools of the Ruby ecosystem: RubyGems and Bundler.

What is Nestor? Hosted Hubot for Slack. Supercharge your team with Bot Powers in Seconds.

Lita and Nestor can be primarily classified as "ChatOps" tools.

Some of the features offered by Lita are:

Automate tasks
Built with Ruby
Free and open source

On the other hand, Nestor provides the following key features:

Heroku: Manage your Heroku apps with Nestor.
Trello: Manage your Trello cards, boards and lists with Nestor.
Github: Look at issues, merge branches and get Github stats with Nestor.

Lita is an open source tool with 1.56K GitHub stars and 161 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Lita's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

Lita	Nestor
Lita is a chat bot written in Ruby with persistent storage provided by Redis. It uses a plugin system to connect to different chat services and to provide new behavior. The plugin system uses the familiar tools of the Ruby ecosystem: RubyGems and Bundler.	Supercharge your team with Bot Powers in Seconds
Automate tasks;Built with Ruby;Free and open source;Works with any chat service, including IRC, Slack, HipChat, and Campfire;Install plugins from those already published, or write your own	Heroku: Manage your Heroku apps with Nestor.;Trello: Manage your Trello cards, boards and lists with Nestor.;Github: Look at issues, merge branches and get Github stats with Nestor.;Mixpanel: Get information about your customers and how your app is used with Nestor.;Envoy: Find out about who visited your office with Envoy & Nestor.
Statistics
Stacks 25	Stacks 1
Followers 38	Followers 8
Votes 18	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 5 Extendable 4 Automates tasks 3 Free 3 Fun to use 3 Builds company culture	No community feedback yet
Integrations
DigitalOcean Travis CI PagerDuty HipChat Rundeck Ruby StatusPage.io YouTube Nagios GitHub	GitHub Mailchimp Campaign Monitor Mixpanel Papertrail Librato Trello Convox Heroku Slack

What are some alternatives to Lita, Nestor?

Hubot

Hubot is a chat bot, modeled after GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool. He's extendable with old community scripts, or new community org and your own custom scripts, and can work on many different chat services.

Errbot

The main use is to make it easy for you to write your own plugins so you can make it do whatever you want: a deployment, retrieving some information online, trigger a tool via an API.

HubCommander

HubCommander provides a chat-ops means for managing GitHub organizations. It creates a simple way to perform privileged GitHub organization management tasks without granting administrative or owner privileges to your GitHub organization members.

Abbot

It is a platform to build and run automation scripts from chat without a lot of hassle. It takes care of the annoying parts of getting up and running so you can focus on getting things done.

Pagerbot

Pagerbot is a bot that makes managing PagerDuty on-call schedules easier. It currently supports IRC and slack, and can be easily deployed to heroku.

Securitybot

Securitybot is an open-source implementation of a distributed alerting chat bot, as described in Ryan Huber's blog post. Distributed alerting improves the monitoring efficiency of your security team and can help you catch security incidents faster and more efficiently.