random-bonusly

Random bonus generator to be used with bonus.ly

General information

If your company uses bonus.ly, you might end up noticing that you always give bonuses just to the people around you as you don't have any clue about other team's achievements, so to be fair and give away rewards to those in the far corner of the office, you can generate them randomly. This is a command line utility, once installed, just type

$ random-bonusly

and you'll create a +1 bonus to a random person, with a random quote from Star Trek (default) and the hashtag #why-so-serious.

It can also be used as a module to be imported in your project.

Getting started

This application is dependent on Node 6.x and an old application known as fortune(s) (only if you want to generate random messages). To install node you can use

$ brew install node

if you are running Mac OS X and use Homebrew as a package manager (recommended). If not, you can download an install from nodejs.org.

If you are using Linux, there are several ways of installing it. In an Ubuntu distro,

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

To install fortune in Mac OS X with Homebrew, do

$ brew install fortune

In a linux deb based distro,

$ sudo apt-get fortunes

After installing those, clone this repo into a local folder. You need to create a file in the same folder named secrets.json, with this format:

{
    "access_token": "youraccesstokenhere"
}

Rename the file secrets.sample.json to secrets.json and edit it to change "youraccesstokenhere" to your bonus.ly access_token, that, after logging in, you can get from here. Alternatively you can run

npm run install

which will prompt you for the api key and create the secrets.json file for you.

Then from within the cloned folder, run

$ npm install -g . 

You might have to run that as sudo if you are using Linux, depending on your distro. Now you are set to go! Just type

$ random-bonusly

and you'll see the bonus given and how many points left you have to reward others.

Command line options

• -# : hashtag to be used.
• --dry-run: generate a bonus and log it without posting.
• -a: add to bonuses given by other people in the previous day.
• -h: show list of params allowed.
• -m : message to be used. Use quotes is the message includes spaces.
• -p : number of points to be given.
• -u : username of the receiver of the reward.

Used as a module in another project

If you use this inside another project, you can call the exported reward functions with an options hash, being the options (see above for an explanation):

• hashtag:
• dry-run:
• add:
• message:
• points:
• user:
• set:

The help otion is ignored.

Using different fortune sets

After the last command line option, just add whatever sets you want, separated by spaces, for example:

$ random-bonusly --dry-run science pets

To see available sets of quotes,

$ fortune -f