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.

rbot features

• Runtime configuration via irc chat

• User authentication and access levels for using different bot features

• Built in infobot-style keywords.

• Support for underlying fact database (infobot fact files), which can be overridden or supplemented by runtime keyword controls

• Multi-language support - comes with english, dutch, german, french, italian japanese, chinese and russian definitions so far - more translations welcome

• Powerful plugin architecture, comes with plugins for:

  • DNS queries

  • Babelfish translation

  • Google searching

  • Excuse generation

  • Insult generation

  • Karma

  • Checking the weather

  • Querying slashdot

  • Doing Math

  • Per-channel quote storage, searching and retrieval

  • Reminders

  • rot13 translation

  • Check the spelling of a word

  • Webserver Server: header examination

  • RPG dice rolling

  • larting people

  • conversation stats

  • more…

Thanks are owed to the infobot developers - several of rbot’s features are inspired by infobot and so are some of the default plugins. Thanks are also owed to RADKade1, as rbot’s quote plugin is a direct reimplementation of his “quotesaq” - simply because it’s a great quote interface.

Mainly, rbot’s fun to play with, although the plugin architecture can be used to write very useful modules