If you're just trying the bot out, start it via racket libera-main.rkt. If you want it to run continuously, and happen
to have upstart available (which in
practice means you're running Ubuntu), you can copy rudybot.conf
to /etc/init and then # start rudybot-libera.
Getting an error about rackunit not being available? That can be
caused by using the racket-textual package instead of racket.
Run the unit tests like this:
$ raco test -x .
Run the integration tests by somehow creating corpus.db (alas I can't think of the steps at the moment), then
$ racket servers.rkt
I just started backing up the "big-log", which holds a more-or-less raw transcript of all communication between the bot and the IRC server. (The file "corpus.db" is a sqlite db holding essentially the same data; it can probably be recreated from the log via some simple hacking.)
I do the backups with an hourly cron job that runs this command:
aws s3 cp --quiet /mnt2/rudybot/big-log s3://rudybot-data-backups --region us-west-1
That's insanely inefficient, since it copies the same file over and over (the file doesn't grow all that much in an hour), but perhaps it's cheap enough. We'll see.