Tourmaline Bot Boilerplate

This is a boilerplate Telegram bot for the Tourmaline Telegram bot framework.

Features:

Internationalization support using TechMagister/i18n
Background job processing using robacarp/mosquito
Database support using PostgreSQL, amberframework/micrate, and anykeyh/clear
Automatic restarts during development using samueleaton/sentry
Dockerfile for easy deployments

Usage

Clone the repo and cd into the created directory

git clone https://github.com/watzon/tourmaline-boilerplate.git
cd tourmaline-boilerplate

Install required shards
```
shards install
```
Create and edit envorionment file
```
cp .env.example .env
```
Setup and migrate the database (be sure you have configured the DATABASE_URI environment variable)
```
./micrate up
```
Run the bot (using sentry to watch for changes)
```
crystal run ./src/sentry.cr
```

Contributing

Fork it (https://github.com/your-github-user/telegram_bot/fork)
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

Chris Watson - creator and maintainer