The OnCompare team recently posted a detailed overview of their killer HipChat setup. They’re using GitHub‘s HipChat integration as well as custom integrations for AgileZen and TeamCity to create an activity hub for their distributed team. See how they did it.
OnCompare's HipChat setup
Not using any of our integrations yet? You’re missing out!
Our friends at Mojo Tech recently released a simple Ruby wrapper for the HipChat API which has special support for Capistrano, a popular deployment framework. After adding a few lines to your Capistrano scripts you’ll receive room messages during deployments, rollbacks, and migrations.
To install the gem, run:
$ gem install hipchatThen add the following to your Capistrano script:
require 'hipchat/capistrano'
set :hipchat_token, "your token"
set :hipchat_room_name, "your room"
set :hipchat_announce, false # notify users?Pretty easy! Check out the project page for more details.
By the way, we have integrations with other services such as GitHub, Heroku, and MailChimp as well as API libraries in other languages. Let us know if you’ve done something cool with our API that you’d like to share.
GitHub just added HipChat as a one of their service hooks using our new API so you can get in-room notifications of pushes. To set it up just go to your repository’s “Admin” page and select “Service Hooks” on the left. Enter your API auth token and room name and you’re good to go!
GitHub push message
Thanks GitHub!