---
title: Announcing Pester
teaser: Automatically nudge your teammates for code reviews.
tags: news,open source,tools,pester
author: Melissa Xie
published_on: 2015-12-21
---

When you're working on a project
that has a lot going on,
it's easy for a pull request
to get missed in the noise.
Enter Pester.

[Pester][github repo] is an open source tool
that will automatically
ping your Slack channels
when a pull request has been opened.
All you have to do is
configure some tags
(such as #ruby, #javascript, or #design)
to point to certain Slack channels
(such as #backend, #frontend, or #ui).
Then,
include at least one of those tags
in your PR description.
The Slack channel(s) will be pinged again
after 30 minutes
if the PR still needs to be reviewed.
This time limit is configurable
as an environment variable.

Pester also has a web view,
which lists pull requests that are
still waiting to be reviewed
and those that are in progress.

![](https://images.thoughtbot.com/announcing-beggar/M6Tdw6MLSFqht0rdYKyN_beggar_screenshot.jpg)

This is great for
when you want an overview of
the open pull requests
across your team
and to help your teammates
move them along.

Want your pull requests
to get the attention they deserve?

Deploy your own Pester
using the Heroku button
in [the README][github repo],
then follow the "Getting Started" page
on your deployed instance,
and start tagging!

[github repo]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/pester