Why do my bot keep getting the same message.

[oldigor]

I instantied a bot like the example in the README.md:

require 'telegram_bot'

bot = TelegramBot.new(token: '[YOUR TELEGRAM BOT TOKEN GOES HERE]')
bot.get_updates(fail_silently: true) do |message|
  puts "@#{message.from.username}: #{message.text}"
  command = message.get_command_for(bot)

  message.reply do |reply|
    case command
    when /greet/i
      reply.text = "Hello, #{message.from.first_name}!"
    else
      reply.text = "#{message.from.first_name}, have no idea what #{command.inspect} means."
    end
    puts "sending #{reply.text.inspect} to @#{message.from.username}"
    reply.send_with(bot)
  end
end

But the bot keep getting the same message forever. Shouldn't it "clear" the message in the Telegram server? Or at least count inside the gem which was the last message received?

If that is not supposed to do that, what is the recommended way to handle it?

Edit 1:
This is what I mean:

[eljojo]

Hi @igorlemosvicente, I think telegram changed the way the API works these days, to return all messages by default. I was running into similar issues when testing the gem.

the get_updates method takes a offset attribute, here:

telegram_bot/lib/telegram_bot/bot.rb

Line 76 in 5df9bed

opts[:offset] ||= @offset

I think it takes the message id from the last message you received:

telegram_bot/lib/telegram_bot/message.rb

Lines 2 to 6 in 5df9bed

	class Message
	include Virtus.model
	attribute :message_id, Integer
	alias_method :id, :message_id
	alias_method :to_i, :id

You could try something like:

bot.get_updates(offset: id_from_the_last_message_you_received) do |message|
  store_the_id_of_the_last_message_somewhere(message.id)
end