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Re: Ruby IRC client

James Gray

9/4/2006 3:16:00 PM

On Sep 4, 2006, at 12:14 AM, |MKSM| wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The other night I was talking to a friend over IRC about how simple
> IRC clients scripting would be if Ruby was used. Well, why not have a
> whole client coded with Ruby? Since my experience/knowledge with Ruby
> is not that great, I'd like to hear some thoughts about this.
>
> Would Ruby be a good choice to code an IRC client? My goal is to
> project/envision something that could rival mIRC. Aspects such as GUI,
> speed, scripting/plugins need to be taken into account.
>
> Hope anyone that is familiar with IRC and Ruby could help me with
> their thoughts and ideas on this.

Ruby makes a fine IRC language. I used an IRC Bot as an example in a
Unit Testing article I wrote:

http://grayproductions.net/ruby/first_...

Hope that gives you some fresh ideas.

James Edward Gray II