looking for a way to separate my chat routes and callbacks

[Aulbourn Knowles]

Im doing a OOP project for school in which i have create a bot in ruby.  My dilemma is that i want to keep my routes in the

file generated when creating a new handler but move the response methods to a bin folder outside of the lib folder.

so for example my handler would be named dialog

the file structure would look like so

lita-dialog/lib/lita/handlers/dialog.rb

 module Lita
  module Handlers
    class Dialog < Handler
      # insert handler code here
       route(/.*hello|hi|good morning|morning|welcome.*/i, :greeting_response, command: true)
      Lita.register_handler(self)
    end
  end
end

this would house my routes, then  i would want  my responses to be in

lita-dialog/bin/main.rb

require_relative '../lib/lita/handlers/dialog.rb'


 def greeting_response(response)
    greetingresponse = [
      'Hello',
      "Greetings, #{response.user.name}.",
      "Well hello there, #{response.user.name}.",
      "Hey #{response.user.name}, Hello!",
      "Good day, #{response.user.name}",
      'Hi.'
    ]

    response.reply(greetingresponse.sample)
 end

In testing when testing the routes to the responses they are passing but when i interact with the bot the bot does response when given keyword commands

that should trigger a response.

im getting this error when i run 'lita'

Passing 'id' command to redis as is; blind passthrough has been deprecated and will be removed in redis-namespace 2.0 (at /Users/aulbournknowles/.r│~                              │~

benv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/did_you_mean-1.3.0/lib/did_you_mean/core_ext/name_error.rb:8:in `inspect')                            │~                              │~
[2020-05-14 19:42:20 UTC] ERROR: Lita::Handlers::Dialog crashed. The exception was:                                                                │~                              │~
undefined method `greeting_response' for #<Lita::Handlers::Dialog:0x00007fad9b8ed988>                                                              │~                              │~
Full backtrace:                                                                                                                                    │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/callback.rb:31:in `public_send'                          │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/callback.rb:31:in `call'                                 │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/handler/chat_router.rb:97:in `dispatch_to_route'         │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/handler/chat_router.rb:82:in `block in dispatch'         │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/handler/chat_router.rb:72:in `map'                       │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/handler/chat_router.rb:72:in `dispatch'                  │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/robot.rb:69:in `block in receive'                        │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/2.6.0/set.rb:338:in `each_key'                                                               │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/2.6.0/set.rb:338:in `each'                                                                   │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/robot.rb:66:in `map'                                     │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/robot.rb:66:in `receive'                                 │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/adapters/shell.rb:94:in `block in run_loop'              │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/adapters/shell.rb:85:in `loop'                           │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/adapters/shell.rb:85:in `run_loop'                       │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/adapters/shell.rb:34:in `run'                            │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/robot.rb:80:in `run'                                     │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita.rb:80:in `run'                                           │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/cli.rb:77:in `start'                                     │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run'                                   │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `invoke_command'                    │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor.rb:392:in `dispatch'                                     │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/base.rb:485:in `start'                                   │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/bin/lita:6:in `<top (required)>'                                  │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/bin/lita:23:in `load'                                                                                 │~                              │~
/Users/aulbournknowles/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/bin/lita:23:in `<main>'   

how could i fix this please.

[Aulbourn Knowles]

Hey Mike thanks 

I tried it but it didn’t work.  

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[Jimmy Cuadra]

Hi,

What is the reason for putting Lita code in this unusual location? You'll have an easier time if you stick to the standard structure. If you really can't reorganize your code...

The Lita handler you showed defines a route that will invoke an instance method called `greeting_response` when an incoming message matches. There is no instance method with that name defined, hence the "undefined method" exception. You have a method with this name defined in the other file, but a method defined at the top-level scope is not the same thing as an instance method in a class. If you want that method to be included in the Lita handler class, you should define it in a module that you include in the handler. I would recommend doing some reading on Ruby fundamentals to understand how classes, modules, and scopes work.

Hope this puts you on the right track!

Jimmy