http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2005/09/11/rbot-is-cool en-us 40 thoughts.sort_by{|t| t[:topic]}.collect <p>This weekend, I found myself helping the <a href="http://www.pdxruby.org/">Portland Ruby Brigade</a> get setup with a <a href="http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby">new mailing list</a> and while in our <span class="caps">IRC</span> channel (<strong>#pdx.rb</strong> on freenode), I was reminded that we never setup a bot in the channel. So, I went and tried to get Eggdrop running but didn&#8217;t like that the configuration file is a whopping <strong>1342 lines long</strong>. Seriously&#8230; it&#8217;s long. I am a busy person right now and this was instantly a turn-off. So, i looked around for ruby based ones&#8230; found a few python ones and found <a href="http://linuxbrit.co.uk/rbot/">rbot</a></p> <p>yes&#8230; a ruby-based irc bot!</p> <p><span class="caps">SVN</span> checked it out&#8230; added the few deps and the configuration file&#8230;</p> <div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_ruby "> <span class="punct">---</span> <span class="ident">irc</span><span class="punct">.</span><span class="ident">nick</span><span class="punct">:</span> <span class="ident">pdxrbot</span> <span class="ident">core</span><span class="punct">.</span><span class="ident">address_prefix</span><span class="punct">:</span> <span class="punct">-</span> <span class="punct">&quot;</span><span class="string">?</span><span class="punct">&quot;</span> <span class="ident">irc</span><span class="punct">.</span><span class="ident">user</span><span class="punct">:</span> <span class="ident">pdxruby</span> <span class="ident">server</span><span class="punct">.</span><span class="ident">name</span><span class="punct">:</span> <span class="ident">irc</span><span class="punct">.</span><span class="ident">freenode</span><span class="punct">.</span><span class="ident">net</span> <span class="ident">auth</span><span class="punct">.</span><span class="ident">password</span><span class="punct">:</span> <span class="punct">******</span> <span class="ident">irc</span><span class="punct">.</span><span class="ident">join_channels</span><span class="punct">:</span> <span class="punct">-</span> <span class="punct">&quot;</span><span class="string">#pdx.rb</span><span class="punct">&quot;</span> </code></pre></div> <p>Yes! <span class="caps">YAML</span>!</p> <p>It ran right away&#8230;and I was sold. Nice work. (and only about 1330 lines less of configuration!)</p> <p>So, it was up and running and then I looked at the plugins api. (<strong>huge grin</strong>)</p> <p>I&#8217;ve added two plugins to the #pdx.rb bot already. One for rubyurl (uses shorturl) and one that shows the last 5 entry titles from the planet rubyonrails site. :-)</p> <p>We&#8217;re already scheming how we&#8217;ll make it work with meeting reminders, subversion, and other random fun. I&#8217;m quite impressed so far.</p> <p>Check it out <a href="http://linuxbrit.co.uk/rbot/">here</a></p> Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:17:00 -0500 urn:uuid:fa8857af734aed588a84d402c1cafe55 Robby Russell http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2005/09/11/rbot-is-cool Ruby Programming ruby irc bot rbot