Build Chatbot Interactions: Responsive, Intuitive Interfaces with Ruby

Pritchett, Daniel

ISBN 10: 1680506323 / ISBN 13: 9781680506327

Editore: Pragmatic Bookshelf (edition 1), 2019

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• Titolo: Build Chatbot Interactions: Responsive, Intuitive Interfaces with Ruby
• Editore: Pragmatic Bookshelf (edition 1)
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1680506323
• ISBN 13: 9781680506327
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: 1.
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

The next step in the evolution of user interfaces is here. Chatbots let your users interact with your service in their own natural language. Use free and open source tools along with Ruby to build creative, useful, and unexpected interactions for users. Take advantage of the Lita framework's step-by-step implementation strategy to simplify bot development and testing. From novices to experts, chatbots are an area in which everyone can participate. Exercise your creativity by creating chatbot skills for communicating, information, and fun.

Developers of all skill levels can craft user experiences that are natural, easy to use, and most of all, fun. Build chatbots using free, open source tools and launch them to popular chat platforms like Slack and Amazon's Alexa. Use the Ruby programming language and the Lita bot framework to unlock fun and powerful chat abilities such as sending text messages and emails, creating new meme images, driving a robot around the room, and talking out loud on a home speaker.

Use frameworks available in Ruby and Node.js to get started quickly. Create simple chatbot skills that respond quickly to basic requests. Chain skills together for more complex interactions. Take advantage of test-driven development techniques to build your bots with confidence. Coordinate tasks with colleagues via bot. Connect with external APIs to provide users with data they need. Extract data information from web pages when an API isn't available. Expand your bot's reach with SMS and e-mail messaging. Deploy a chatbot to a host so users can interact with it on their schedule.

Build a more responsive, easy-to-use interface for your users today.

What You Need:

You don't need much to get started with chatbots. A Mac or Linux computer with a recent version of Ruby is recommended. Windows users can keep up with a free virtual machine running Linux. You'll deploy your chatbots for free (or at least cheaply) on cloud hosting platforms like Heroku and Digital Ocean.

Informazioni sull?autore

Daniel Pritchett is a consulting programmer, speaker, and user group supporter in Memphis, Tennessee. He builds infrastructure tooling for internet companies. If it's interesting and useful, Daniel wants to help you build it.