How to create telegram bots in Ruby

#api #backend #ruby #tutorial

You must have heard or used telegram bots

now the deep question is how are they created

We are going to see to that get your ide ready cause we gonna create a bot in 5 minutes

Requirements

A ready good ide with Ruby installed
basic or advanced knowledge in Ruby
bot token from @botfather

If you don’t know how to get your bot token check out this post 👉 telegram_token

After getting you token
Create a GEMFILE

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'telegem', '~> 3.0.4'

gem 'dotenv', '~> 2.8'

#add any other gem you wish httparty nethttp json e.t.c

if using bundle use

$ bundle install

or gem if using gem

$ gem install

it’s pretty much recommended to use bundle but gem still works

next let’s create our file create a .env file with your token

BOT_TOKEN=11234:445849489449
replace with your actual token

#bot.rb 

require 'telegem'
require 'dotenv/load'

bot = Telegem.new(ENV['BOT_TOKEN']) 

bot.command("start") do |ctx| 
  ctx.reply("welcome to test2bot") 
 end 

bot.command("help") do |ctx| 
 ctx.reply("**u need help**", parse_mode: 'Markdown') 
end 

bot.start_polling 
puts "bot has started"