Port Jabbot from Console app to ASP.NET MVC

[andrewtobin]

http://nuget.org/packages/SignalR
https://github.com/davidfowl/Jabbot/

Starts a app-pool-recycle resillient worker process for checking messages sent to it, and returning messages.

Can we do a persistent connection from an ASP.NET page, or would we have to do a hosted bot somehow?

[andrewtobin]

Doing it in SignalR - so we have a bot in SignalR talking live back to the chat room was a great suggestion.

SignalR <--> SignalR - keeping both live.

[andrewtobin]

***************** WE'RE LEAVING IT IN CONSOLE TO BEGIN WITH - WILL ADVISE WHEN WE'RE RIGHT TO CHANGE OVER

This has been started, but with NancyFx rather than ASP.NET MVC

[DavidBurela]

Any reason for the switch from MVC to NancyFx?
Is it just to avoid the app pool recycling? You're going to have that issue anyway if AppHb reboots a deployment?

Nancy's really nice. Also thats what @shiftkey had made it before he told me to go nuts.

[shiftkey]

To clarify, we went with NancyFx because @sethwebster contributed the initial web code.

[DavidBurela]

We need to get Paul Stovell to submit some initial code, so that we're all
using StovellFx ;-)

On 12 January 2012 22:31, Brendan Forster <
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To clarify, we went with NancyFx because @sethwebster contributed the
initial web code.

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[sethwebster]

I've got a working Nancy host working on AppHarbor -- it's running twitterbot.

I went with Nancy for fun, more than as a design decision. I've gotten around the App recycling using my MomentApp nuget package. Basically, upon app start, the app creates a scheduled moment job to ping the service again in 2 minutes, once that happens, another scheduled job is created and so forth.

Something more robust would be needed for a mission critical app, but this strategy is simple, and free.

[shiftkey]

Gotta agree with @sethwebster on this - plus we've had the NancyFx guys hanging out in the chatroom to help with a couple of questions.