Note: As of v1.2.0 the config changed to use symbols for the channel names, please be aware.

Cinch::Cooldown

This library is used to add a global cooldown so that users are prevented from spamming the channel.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'cinch-cooldown'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install cinch-cooldown

Configuration Steps:

You need to add the configuration to your bot in the config block. You will need to add config info for every channel the bot is in that you want a cooldown. The :global is how many seconds the bot will wait before listening to a command that prints something to the channel, while the :user directive is how long it will wait per user. Currently the gem is simple and assumes that the user timer will be greater than the global timer.

c.shared[:cooldown] = { :config => { bottest: { global: 10, user: 20 } } }
If you are using this with my plugins, things should just work. However if you want to use this with your own plugins, you need to add a 'require cinch/cooldown' to the top of said plugin, and an enforce_cooldown to the plugin after the include Cinch::Plugin line.