Rabbiter is an ejabberd module providing a bot – rabbiter@rabbiter.DOMAIN, by default – which provides a microblogging service when you add it to your roster.

To compile:

• get ejabberd sources ¹
• get, and install, RabbitMQ – http://www.rabbitmq.com/download – make sure you get the latest repository sources! ²
  • you’ll need rabbitmq-server and rabbitmq-codegen
  • unzip them
  • rename the “rabbitmq-codegen-(lots of hex digits)” directory to “rabbitmq-codegen”, and similarly for rabbitmq-server
  • in the rabbitmq-server directory, type “make”
  • symlink the rabbitmq-server so it is available at your lib/erlang directory ³
• get rabbiter sources
• symlink mod_rabbiter.erl into ejabberd/src/.
• build ejabberd
• add a mod_rabbiter stanza to ejabberd.cfg ⁴.
• start ejabberd

If you configured ejabberd to serve DOMAIN, and you didn’t supply any special domain for the rabbiter module, you can now add rabbiter@rabbiter.DOMAIN to your roster. It ought to send you a welcome message.

If you want rabbiter@someother.domain, change the ejabberd.cfg stanza for rabbiter to {mod_rabbiter, [{host, “someother.domain”}]}.

¹

svn co http://svn.process-one.net/ejabberd/trunk ejabberd

²

hg clone http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-server/
hg clone http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-codegen/

³

ln -s rabbitmq-server /usr/lib/erlang/lib/rabbitmq_server

	
(note underscore instead of hyphen)
	
for macports users

ln -s rabbitmq-server /opt/local/lib/erlang/lib/rabbitmq_server

⁴

{modules,
 [
  ...
  {mod_rabbiter, []},
  ...
 ]}.