Renaming discobot causes it to break

blake · May 24, 2017, 8:56pm

I just tried renaming @discobot locally and on a live site and doing so causes it to not function properly.

See the screen shot below to see what happens after I renamed it to @pizzabot:

tgxworld · May 24, 2017, 9:00pm

We’re caching it so it’ll take a rebuild for it to work.

plugins/discourse-narrative-bot/lib/discourse_narrative_bot/actions.rb

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          included do
            def self.discobot_user
              @discobot ||= User.find(-2)
            end
          end

I’ll look into maybe adding an AR callback to burst the cache when the username changes.

blake · May 26, 2017, 12:21am

Okay I can confirm that doing a rebuild after a rename causes it to work again. But unless I’m doing something wrong I still think there are issues after a rename.

If I send a PM directly to my renamed bot it works great. But if I respond in a topic or in a PM to just myself and mention the bot it doesn’t work:

Message to myself:

Responding in a topic:

PM to my renamed bot (this works)

tgxworld · May 26, 2017, 2:15am

Fixed in

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Renaming discobot causes it to break

Message to myself:

Responding in a topic:

PM to my renamed bot (this works)

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