Second commit:

Merge ENV on top of defaults.env to get SETTINGS
Added basic controls via DM

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Gemfile.lock
+secret.env

Gemfile.lock

@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-GEM
-  remote: http://rubygems.org/
-  specs:
-    addressable (2.3.6)
-    awesome_print (1.2.0)
-    bloomfilter-rb (2.1.1)
-      redis
-    buftok (0.2.0)
-    coderay (1.1.0)
-    engtagger (0.2.0)
-    equalizer (0.0.9)
-    eventmachine (1.0.3)
-    faraday (0.9.0)
-      multipart-post (>= 1.2, < 3)
-    fast-stemmer (1.0.2)
-    gingerice (1.2.2)
-      addressable
-      awesome_print
-    highscore (1.2.0)
-      bloomfilter-rb (>= 2.1.1)
-      whatlanguage (>= 1.0.0)
-    htmlentities (4.3.2)
-    http (0.6.3)
-      http_parser.rb (~> 0.6.0)
-    http_parser.rb (0.6.0)
-    json (1.8.1)
-    memoizable (0.4.2)
-      thread_safe (~> 0.3, >= 0.3.1)
-    method_source (0.8.2)
-    multipart-post (2.0.0)
-    naught (1.0.0)
-    pry (0.10.1)
-      coderay (~> 1.1.0)
-      method_source (~> 0.8.1)
-      slop (~> 3.4)
-    redis (3.1.0)
-    rufus-scheduler (3.0.9)
-      tzinfo
-    simple_oauth (0.3.0)
-    slop (3.6.0)
-    thread_safe (0.3.4)
-    twitter (5.13.0)
-      addressable (~> 2.3)
-      buftok (~> 0.2.0)
-      equalizer (~> 0.0.9)
-      faraday (~> 0.9.0)
-      http (~> 0.6.0)
-      http_parser.rb (~> 0.6.0)
-      json (~> 1.8)
-      memoizable (~> 0.4.0)
-      naught (~> 1.0)
-      simple_oauth (~> 0.3.0)
-    twitter_ebooks (3.0.0)
-      engtagger
-      eventmachine (~> 1.0.3)
-      fast-stemmer
-      gingerice
-      highscore
-      htmlentities
-      pry
-      rufus-scheduler
-      simple_oauth
-      twitter (~> 5.0)
-    tzinfo (1.2.2)
-      thread_safe (~> 0.1)
-    whatlanguage (1.0.5)
-
-PLATFORMS
-  ruby
-
-DEPENDENCIES
-  twitter_ebooks

bots.rb

@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ require 'dotenv'
 
 include Ebooks::Boodoo
 
-# Read .env file and set values:
-SETTINGS = Dotenv.load
+# Read defaults and lay env vars on top:
+SETTINGS = Dotenv.load('defaults.env').merge(ENV)
+
 
 # Information about a particular Twitter user we know
 class UserInfo
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ class CloneBot < BoodooBot
     # @pester_count  =    parse_num(SETTINGS['PESTER_COUNT'])
     @timeout_sleep =    parse_num(SETTINGS['TIMEOUT_SLEEP'])
 
-    # from example
+    # from upstream example
     @userinfo = {}
 
     # added for BooDoo variant
@@ -96,11 +97,40 @@ class CloneBot < BoodooBot
   end
 
   def on_direct_message(dm)
-    # TODO: Add controls here! Especially "tweet"
+    from_owner = dm.user.screen_name.downcase == @original
+    if from_owner
+      action = dm.text.split.first.downcase
+      strip_re = Regexp.new("^#{command}\s*", "i")
+      payload = dm.text.sub(strip_re, "")
+      #TODO: Add blacklist/whitelist/reject(banned phrase)
+      #TODO? Move this into a DMController class or equivalent?
+      case action
+      when "tweet"
+        tweet model.make_response(payload, 140)
+      when "follow"
+        follow payload
+      when "unfollow"
+        unfollow payload
+      when "block"
+        block payload
+      when "mention"
+        pre = payload + " "
+        limit = 140 - pre.size
+        message = "#{pre}#{model.make_statement(limit)}"
+        tweet message
+      when "cheating"
+        tweet payload
+      else
+        log "Don't have behavior for command: #{command}"
+        reply(dm, model.make_response(dm.text))
+      end
+    else
+      #otherwise, just reply like a mention
       delay(dm_delay) do
         reply(dm, model.make_response(dm.text))
       end
     end
+  end
 
   def on_mention(tweet)
     # Become more inclined to pester a user when they talk to us

defaults.env

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ CONSUMER_KEY=
 CONSUMER_SECRET=
 ACCESS_TOKEN=
 ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=
-UPDATE_FOLLOWS_INTERVAL=90m
 TWEET_INTERVAL=2m
 TWEET_CHANCE=0.8
 BLACKLIST=tinysubversions, dril
@@ -16,3 +15,4 @@ MENTION_DELAY=5..60
 TIMELINE_DELAY=10..600
 TIMEOUT_SLEEP=5
 MAX_ERROR_RETRIES=10
+UPDATE_FOLLOWS_INTERVAL=90m