RBot - The Ruby IRC Bot

rbot is a ruby IRC bot. Think of him as a ruby bot framework with a highly modular design based around plugins.

Install Guide

Information about installing the bot can be found here: Install-Guide.

Notes on the registry and migrating from an old bot can be found here: Registry-Migration-Notes.

Fork Changes

• Ruby 2.1.1 is fully supported.
• Drops ruby 1.8 support, ruby >= 1.9.3 is required.
• Removes a lot of broken/outdated plugins.
• Removes the DRb remote interface due to its abysmal security.
• Introduces a web service.
• Registry is now supporting DBM (that requires no external dependencies).
• New standalone Backup/Restore Script for registry databases.
• Registry folders have now different names based on the adapter used: ~/.rbot/registry_<FORMAT>
• Added a bundler Gemfile to make installing the dependecies easier.

Known Problems

• Ruby 2.0.0 (at least <=p353) is causing a segmentation fault crash that only occurs after a few hours. This is fixed in newer versions of ruby.

• DBM (if using Barkeley DB, maybe other backends aswell) is requiring manual repairs to work after a crash.