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Lita
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Lita

#38in Messaging
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What is Lita?

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.

Lita is a tool in the Messaging category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Automate tasksBuilt with RubyFree and open sourceWorks with any chat service, including IRC, Slack, HipChat, and CampfireInstall plugins from those already published, or write your own

Lita Pros & Cons

Pros of Lita

  • ✓Extendable
  • ✓Automates tasks
  • ✓Builds company culture
  • ✓Free
  • ✓Fun to use

Cons of Lita

No cons listed yet.

Lita Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Lita?

Hubot

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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Lita Integrations

DigitalOcean, Travis CI, PagerDuty, HipChat, Rundeck and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Lita. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Lita.

DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean
Travis CI
Travis CI
PagerDuty
PagerDuty
HipChat
HipChat
Rundeck
Rundeck
Ruby
Ruby
StatusPage.io
StatusPage.io
Nagios
Nagios
GitHub
GitHub
Pivotal Tracker
Pivotal Tracker
Engine Yard Cloud
Engine Yard Cloud
Redmine
Redmine
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