Mar 20
Jabber::Bot makes it simple to create a Jabber bot with little fuss. It is a perfect starting point for creating and customizing a powerful Jabber bot, public or private. A Jabber::Bot's command repertoire is a combination of regular expressions and pure Ruby code. With a little creativity, there's really nothing a Jabber::Bot can't do.
For example, I recently created a Jabber::Bot that interfaces with a custom Lace chat room I extended with a RESTful API, and it's been working great.
Installing Jabber::Bot is a snap with RubyGems: gem install jabber-bot.
You'll find some brief documentation with examples on the Jabber::Bot home page. Also, the RubyGem contains full RDoc, and the gzipped tarball includes a sample Jabber::Bot implementation.
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