Messages are posted with as_user: true by default, closes #4.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ### 0.3.0 (Next)
 
+* [#4](https://github.com/dblock/slack-ruby-bot/issues/4): Messages are posted with `as_user: true` by default - [@dblock](https://github.com/dblock).
 * Your contribution here.
 
 ### 0.2.0 (7/10/2015)

lib/slack-ruby-bot/app.rb

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def client
             rescue StandardError => e
               logger.error e
               begin
-                Slack.chat_postMessage(channel: data['channel'], text: e.message) if data.key?('channel')
+                Slack.chat_postMessage(channel: data['channel'], text: e.message, as_user: true) if data.key?('channel')
               rescue
                 # ignore
               end

lib/slack-ruby-bot/commands/base.rb

@@ -4,23 +4,24 @@ class Base
       class_attribute :operators
       class_attribute :commands
 
-      def self.send_message(channel, text)
+      def self.send_message(channel, text, options = { as_user: true })
         if text && text.length > 0
-          Slack.chat_postMessage(channel: channel, text: text)
+          message = { channel: channel, text: text }.merge(options)
+          Slack.chat_postMessage(message)
         else
-          send_message_with_gif channel, 'Nothing to see here.', 'nothing'
+          send_message_with_gif channel, 'Nothing to see here.', 'nothing', options
         end
       end
 
-      def self.send_message_with_gif(channel, text, keywords)
+      def self.send_message_with_gif(channel, text, keywords, options = { as_user: true })
         gif = begin
           Giphy.random(keywords)
         rescue StandardError => e
           logger.warn "Giphy.random: #{e.message}"
           nil
         end
         text = text + "\n" + gif.image_url.to_s if gif
-        send_message channel, text
+        send_message channel, text, options
       end
 
       def self.logger

lib/slack-ruby-bot/rspec/support/slack-ruby-bot/respond_with_slack_message.rb

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   match do |actual|
     channel, user, message = parse(actual)
     allow(Giphy).to receive(:random)
-    expect(SlackRubyBot::Commands::Base).to receive(:send_message).with(channel, expected)
+    expect(SlackRubyBot::Commands::Base).to receive(:send_message).with(channel, expected, as_user: true)
     app.send(:message, text: message, channel: channel, user: user)
     true
   end

spec/slack-ruby-bot/commands/commands_spec.rb

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
       command 'saybye'
 
       def self.call(data, command, arguments)
-        send_message data.channel, "#{command}: #{arguments}"
+        send_message data.channel, "#{command}: #{arguments}", as_user: true
       end
     end
   end

spec/slack-ruby-bot/commands/empty_text_spec.rb

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ def app
   end
   it 'sends default text' do
     allow(Giphy).to receive(:random)
-    expect(SlackRubyBot::Commands::Base).to receive(:send_message_with_gif).with('channel', 'Nothing to see here.', 'nothing')
+    expect(SlackRubyBot::Commands::Base).to receive(:send_message_with_gif).with('channel', 'Nothing to see here.', 'nothing', as_user: true)
     app.send(:message, text: "#{SlackRubyBot.config.user} test", channel: 'channel', user: 'user')
   end
 end

spec/slack-ruby-bot/commands/operators_spec.rb

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
       operator '-'
 
       def self.call(data, command, arguments)
-        send_message data.channel, "#{command}: #{arguments}"
+        send_message data.channel, "#{command}: #{arguments}", as_user: true
       end
     end
   end