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Integrating Slack with Rally
We all love slacking and we all love slack. See what I did there.. wink. Its the new bad boy of the corporate messaging market. It pretty much blows all of the other messaging solutions out of the water including skype and lync with its slack app add-on’s. In this post we will talk about one such add on that I wrote recently to setup an integration between Rally and Slack.
Personally I am more of an Jira guy but this customer that I was working with recently, had all its teams using Rally. They also were using Slack as the corporate team collaboration solution.
This got me thinking if there was an existing integration between slack and Rally out there. Not surprisingly, rally doesn’t have an out of box integration with Slack and by the looks of it, it doesn’t look like they are planning to work on it either. Seems like it might have something to do with them trying to push Flowdeck as the messaging solution on its customers. I wonder why would anyone want to migrate from Slack to Flowdeck just for this.
Hence I ended up writing a small python script which pulls data from rally and posts them to Slack as messages. Given below is the script.
That’s it. Give it a try. You can have it setup in a cron on one of your boxes and watch your stories rolling into Slack.
As always, Happy Coding !!