WebIRC is a Sinatra based IRC application, the IRC connection is maintained server-side, and the client is simulated on a web browser using Javascript and JSON.
It is fairly pointless when you consider that irssi and screen have been around for years, but that assumes you can start a secure shell from anywhere, whereas standards compliant web browsers are fairly ubiquitous.
WebIRC is a collection of Ruby scripts, so a Ruby interpreter is required (tested with 1.8.6), and the following gems:
To install the ruby-gems type sudo gem install ≪gem name≫ at the shell
prompt.
At the command prompt:
$ ruby webserver.rb
The WebIRC interface should now be available at http://localhost:4567/
The switch -p ≪port number≫ can be used to specify a port number to bind to.
See the Rack documentation for details on how to connect a web server to the Rack interface.
I've not tested it, but I'm going to assume it doesn't work anyway. My advice would be to use a different browser if possible, my personal choice would be a webkit-based alternative, such as Safari or Chrome.
Send bugs and general correspondence to mailto:andy.herbert@gmail.com
Several Javascript frameworks are used on the client side:
- Prototype library @ http://www.prototypejs.org/
- Lalit Patel's JSON cookies @ http://www.lalit.org/lab/jsoncookies
Copyright © 2009 Andrew Herbert. See MIT-LICENSE.txt in this directory.