Where should custom hubot scripts go in a snap installation?

[cit]

Hey,

I installed rocket.chat 0.50.1 via snap on Ubuntu 16.04.1 TLS and enabled hubot. It is awesome! Now we would like to add custom hubot scripts to rocket.chat. However, in snap the directory /snap/ is mounted as readonly, so I can't just put new scripts in the hubot-scripts folder. I also tried to put scripts into /var/snap/rocketchat-server/common but this gave me of course the following error:

Jan 25 10:29:09 hostname snap[25485]: can't load lunch.coffee
Jan 25 10:29:09 hostname snap[25485]: { [Error: Cannot find module '/snap/rocketchat-server/451/programs/server/npm/node_modules/meteor/rocketchat_internal-hubot/node_modules/hubot-scripts/src/scripts/lunch.coffee'] code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND' }

So, my question is where should custom hubot script go in snap installation? Thanks in advance!

[engelgabriel]

Good point, we need to also look at this on Docker. @graywolf336 @rodrigok any ideas?

[engelgabriel]

@geekgonecrazy any idea on how to do on snaps?

[geekgonecrazy]

@engelgabriel

For snaps anywhere relative to the code execution is read only. So if we can't change the path in settings or via environment variable then they couldnt write new files.

These changes would be helpful for Docker as well.

[engelgabriel]

Should we put it inside the uploads folder?

[cit]

At least from a user perspective the upload folder was my first thought. However, maybe to avoid that the common directory gets too messy, I would like to recommend something like this: /var/snap/rocketchat-server/common/hotbot-scripts/

[maxdwit]

Maybe it would be helpful to have a filestructur similar to the mounted snap folders, which could externd/overwrite files from the mounted folder?

[ghost]

For docker one can add custom scripts with docker cp into the location inside the rocketchat container, but these get deleted with every update via docker pull rocketchat/rocketchat:latest
It would be very convenient to be able to store them somewhere more persistent.

[geekgonecrazy]

ref: #7095 as soon as this is merged we can add a folder in snaps for this.

[apiontek]

Is there an update on this? I'm unclear how to do this on 0.57.3

I created a folder /var/snap/rocketchat-server/common/scripts and placed an "example.coffee" in there that should respond to "test" I think.

If I put "example.script" in the scripts field, and then try "test" in a channel with the bot, or @thebot, nothing happens. If I @thebot help I get the basic help text.

If I specify "Folder to load the scripts" as "scripts/" or "common/scripts/" or "/var/snap/rocketchat-server/common/scripts" then the logs complain about not being able to locate example.script.

Where would /var/snap/rocketchat-server/common/scripts be mounted relative to the rocketchat-server snap?

[DannyHeal]

Hello, I'm running into the same issue where I am not able to add Hubot or GifReply

name: rocketchat-server
summary: "Group chat server for 100s, installed in seconds."
publisher: rocketchat
contact: https://demo.rocket.chat/channel/ubuntu-snap
description: |
Slack-like online chat server for your office, group or family. Up and running
in seconds. Supports file sharing, video conference, geolocation, and much
more. Web and mobile client. MIT licensed Open Source project. List of
features at https://rocket.chat/ , MIT licensed source code at
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat , 24 x 7 community support and demo
server at https://demo.rocket.chat/
commands:

• rocketchat-server.backupdb
• rocketchat-server.initcaddy
• rocketchat-server.mongo
• rocketchat-server.restoredb
  tracking: stable
  installed: 0.58.2 (943) 163MB -
  refreshed: 2017-08-23 04:19:37 +0000 UTC
  channels:
  stable: 0.58.2 (943) 163MB -
  candidate: 0.59.0-rc.3 (1012) 174MB -
  beta: ↑
  edge: 0.59.0-develop (1018) 174MB -

[ttpars]

I am having the same issue, I cannot get internal-hubot to load custom scripts, or scripts I have modified from the github repository.

[wemu]

I'm running 0.58.2 and I think I already works since 0.58.0 or earlier. The snaps seem to have security first in mind so there are some restrictions. The directories available are listed here: https://snapcraft.io/docs/reference/confinement
So what I've done is to set: Folder to load the scripts: /var/snap/rocketchat-server/hubot/
and put the modified scripts in there. That works for me. (no path given for the scripts, ex: "countdown.coffee,gif-me.coffee,zen.coffee"
The logs (/admin/view-logs) show if a script cannot be loaded.
It seems the internal Hubot comes with some restrictions or drawbacks. The chat pointed me to https://github.com/RocketChat/botswana-snap - which also looks quite interesting.

[DannyHeal]

Thanks for replying. I'll try that out. Go RocketChat

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[timkinnane]

Will close this because the referenced PR has been merged and any further updates to the internal hubot script loading can be tracked under #6640.