Description

IRCSocket is an IRC wrapper around a TCPSocket. It implements all of the major commands laid out in RFC 2812. All these commands are available as instance methods of an IRCSocket Object.

API documentation is available here

Example

irc = IRCSocket.new('irc.freenode.org') irc.connect

if irc.connected?
irc.nick "HulkHogan"
irc.user "Hulk", 0, "*", "I am Hulk Hogan"

while line = irc.read

  # Join a channel after MOTD
  if line.split[1] == '376'
    irc.join "#mychannel"
  end

  puts "Received: #{line}"
end
end

Installation

gem install irc-socket

Or alternatively you can clone the Github repository git clone https://github.com/injekt/irc-socket

Notes

I may have missed something in the RFC. Patches welcome.