Fellow Perl Monks, I pray for your wisdom

I want to write a slack bot which will perform certain services for me, however, I can't even get the most basic example (the one from the module) to work.

I installed Bot::Backbone::Service::SlackChat, and copied the example verbatim, except for putting in my own API key, which I got from slack.

package EzopBot;
use Bot::Backbone;

service slack_chat => (
    service => 'SlackChat',
        token   => 'xoxb-297...etc...', # see slack.com for your token
+s                                                                    
+                                                 
        );

service dice => (
    service => 'OFun::Dice',
    );

service "general_chat" =>
  (
   service    => 'GroupChat',
   chat       => 'SlackChat',
   group      => 'C',
   dispatcher => 'general_dispatch',
  );

dispatcher 'general_dispatch' => as {
    redispatch_to "dice";
    };

__PACKAGE__->new->run;

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When I try to run this code, all I get back is no such chat as SlackChat

If I try to step through code, I can see that the SlackChat service seems allocated:

 DB<1> n
Bot::Backbone::Bot::run(/home/matija/perl5/lib/perl5/Bot/Backbone/Bot.
+pm:63):
63:         $self->construct_services;
  DB<1> n
Bot::Backbone::Bot::run(/home/matija/perl5/lib/perl5/Bot/Backbone/Bot.
+pm:64):
64:         $_->initialize for ($self->list_services);
  DB<1> x $self->list_services
0  Bot::Backbone::Service::GroupChat=HASH(0x513af70)
   'bot' => EzopBot=HASH(0x507f3b8)
      'event_loop' => 'POE::Kernel'
      'services' => HASH(0x5187830)
         'dice' => Bot::Backbone::Service::OFun::Dice=HASH(0x5076150)
            'bot' => EzopBot=HASH(0x507f3b8)
               -> REUSED_ADDRESS
            'name' => 'dice'
         'general_chat' => Bot::Backbone::Service::GroupChat=HASH(0x51
+3af70)
            -> REUSED_ADDRESS
         'slack_chat' => Bot::Backbone::Service::SlackChat=HASH(0x509b
+468)
            '_message_queue' => ARRAY(0x5155fd0)
                 empty array
            'bot' => EzopBot=HASH(0x507f3b8)
               -> REUSED_ADDRESS
            'chat_consumers' => ARRAY(0x5160f98)
                 empty array
            'last_mark' => 0
            'name' => 'slack_chat'
            'token' => 'xoxb-29790832193-ZvnekL1EZmyAa0LH4vgSBDL7'
   'chat_consumers' => ARRAY(0x5080240)
        empty array
   'chat_name' => 'SlackChat'
   'dispatcher_name' => 'general_dispatch'
   'group' => 'C'
   'name' => 'general_chat'
1  Bot::Backbone::Service::OFun::Dice=HASH(0x5076150)
   -> REUSED_ADDRESS
2  Bot::Backbone::Service::SlackChat=HASH(0x509b468)
   -> REUSED_ADDRESS

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so I conclude the driver routines get loaded, and something else is going wonky.

Would be grateful for any clues

In reply to Anybody got a clue why my slack bot won't work? by matija

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