Hubot help desk: reply with error if x is not there

Question

I am giving hubot a go to be integrated with slack to act as a helpdesk.

The script (coffeescript) so far looks out for keywords, if the keywords don't exist then I need the hubot to return something like 'Sorry I can't find what you are looking for'.

Below is an example of the keyword query;

module.exports = (robot) ->
  robot.hear /ansible/i, (res) ->
     res.send "Hi, for all ansible related querys, please go to 
     www.github.com/ansible/ansiblehelp"

So for example is ansible is not in the question, the hubot needs to reply with 'Sorry I can't find what you are looking for'.

Is this possible?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try a catchAll clause to provide a default response:

module.exports = (robot) ->
  robot.catchAll (msg) ->
    if msg.message.match /// ^#{robot.name}\s ///
        msg.reply "Sorry I can't find what you are looking for"

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