Ruby IRC bot don't works.

Question

require "socket"

server = "irc.rizon.net"
port = "6667"
nick = "Ruby IRC Bot"
channel = "#0x40"

s = TCPSocket.open(server, port)
s.print("USER Testing", 0)
s.print("NICK #{nick}", 0)
s.print("JOIN #{channel}", 0)

This irc bot don't connect to the IRC server, What are i'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

It faild with this message :

:irc.shakeababy.net 461 * USER :Not enough parameters

So change your code. For example, this one works :

require "socket"

server = "irc.rizon.net"
port = "6667"
nick = "Ruby IRC Bot"
channel = "#0x40"

s = TCPSocket.open(server, port)
print("addr: ", s.addr.join(":"), "\n")
print("peer: ", s.peeraddr.join(":"), "\n")
s.puts "USER testing 0 * Testing"
s.puts "NICK #{nick}"
s.puts "JOIN #{channel}"
s.puts "PRIVMSG #{channel} :Hello from IRB Bot"

until s.eof? do
  msg = s.gets
  puts msg
end

For more information about USER, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_commands#USER

Greg

Answer 2

I wrote a tiny IRC bot framework you may wish to use (as a reference): http://github.com/radar/summer.

Answer 3

http://code.google.com/p/squick/ I'm working on a simple extensible IRC bot in ruby right now, you might find it worth checking out and if you have any questions send me an email I'd be happy to help.