i´m trying to build a irc-bot in ruby, and i´ve no problem with that so far.
but i´m trying to minimize the need for a restart, and want to require some external code at runtime.
i know there is require "external.rb", but this seems to work only once, if i require a script twice while running the program and change it meanwhile, it doesn´t seem to use the changed code, and also i don´t know how i get rid of the last required code.
that´s yet another typical noob-question, i beg your pardon
btw, in case you didn´t really understood what i need - the same thing works in php with include("somescript.php") and that´s exactly how i want it to become.
To get rid of old code, you might want to do something like I do.
inside a particular 'module':
class Foo < ScriptModule
def initialize() ...
register_command("foo") { |args| ... }
end
def cleanup
unregister_command("foo")
end
end
When I load() a script module, I attach all its class to its filename.
When I want to reload said filename, I first call cleanup, causing it to
unregister old code, etc, and then load() it again.
- Greg
manveru wrote:
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hi to all,
i´m trying to build a irc-bot in ruby, and i´ve no problem with that so
far.
but i´m trying to minimize the need for a restart, and want to require
some external code at runtime.
i know there is require "external.rb", but this seems to work only once,
if i require a script twice while running the program and change it
meanwhile, it doesn´t seem to use the changed code, and also i don´t
know how i get rid of the last required code.
that´s yet another typical noob-question, i beg your pardon
btw, in case you didn´t really understood what i need - the same thing
works in php with include("somescript.php") and that´s exactly how i
want it to become.
Use load instead of require. Load needs the path to the file, but will
reload everytime, require is built to load everything only once.
regards,
Brian
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On 01/08/05, manveru <ulmo@valaraan.de> wrote:
hi to all,
i´m trying to build a irc-bot in ruby, and i´ve no problem with that so far.
but i´m trying to minimize the need for a restart, and want to require
some external code at runtime.
i know there is require "external.rb", but this seems to work only once,
if i require a script twice while running the program and change it
meanwhile, it doesn´t seem to use the changed code, and also i don´t
know how i get rid of the last required code.
that´s yet another typical noob-question, i beg your pardon
btw, in case you didn´t really understood what i need - the same thing
works in php with include("somescript.php") and that´s exactly how i
want it to become.
If you have the possibility, can you relase an Irc::Bot lib?
It would be wonderfull.
Tanks to the two who helped me with load(). it´s working fine, and i can code a lot faster now:
but i stumbled over another problem:
i have got the hostmask of a person and i made a class User with the method nick.
now i wonder, how do i create a object to represent a User?
is there a way to create a object out of a hostmask? because somewhere i read that a string is no object... is that true?
this is my Userclass so far... (i know there are ways to improve that, but i´m with ruby since 3 days only
class User
attr_accessor :hostmask
attr_reader :nick
def initialize @hostmask = "" @nick = ""
end
def nick(hostmask = @hostmask)
if hostmask != "" @nick = hostmask.split("!") @nick = @nick[0].split(":") @nick[1].chomp
end
@dave
so far i don´t know if i get to that point, as i´m making a very specialized kind of bot to control some channels.
but if you let me know what that bot should be able to do, i´ll try to implement it and put it online
btw: wouldn´t it be cool to have a GPL-bot who distributes his code by DCC?
so far it´s able to respond to the most common things like PING or VERSION, so it will survive in IRC, now í´m coding some user and channel-objects for manipulation.
wouldn´t it be cool to have a GPL-bot who distributes his code by
DCC?
Yes.
specialized kind of bot to control some channels
module Irc
class Bot
# An "abstract" bot could be initalized with a settings obj.
# The setting obj may contain the bot name, version, and channels
# to control.
def initialize(settings)
end
def connect_to_server(server)
end
def connect_to_servers(server_ary)
end
def connect_to_server_list()
end
def disconnect()
end
# Join channels to control
def join_channels(server)
end
# Define a trigger
def define_trigger(trigger)
end
# Activate the trigger
def activate_trigger(trigger_name)
end
end
end
I thinck this should be a good starting point for a base class.
