How does it work?

Botae uses Facebook Messenger as a platform. It is powered by several Ruby gems and a PostgreSQL database that are hosted on Heroku. Its technology stack as follows:

• Sinatra gem as the main web app structure.
  
• Facebook Messenger API, Graph API through Facebook-Messenger gem by @hyperoslo and Rubotnik Boilerplate by @progapandist.
  
• Facebook Wit.AI NLP for understanding human natural language, and turning user intentions into actionable entities.
• Google Maps API for location inquiries through with httparty and json gems.
• Puma for a basic web server.
  
• PostgreSQL database through PG and ActiveRecord gems.
  
• Heroku as hosting the app, and other back-end actions.
  

Code of this project is up in the course Github repo: http://bit.ly/2inX6In