LiffyBot

An IRC Bot in Lisp Flavored Erlang

Introduction

LiffyBot is not really a serious endeavor, more of a nod to the stereotypical IRC-bot-as-first-project thing than anything else. To be honest, though, the original impetus was a real use case: #erlang-lisp on IRC needed a bot.

*shrugs*

A quick scan of the github Erlang bot-space indicated that perhaps erlbot was a good starting place. We'll try to make our way through that code, porting it to LFE and, maybe some day, running it in our Freenode channel ;-)

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But maybe not.

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Planned Features

• Channel logging.
• Meeting minutes/notes.
• Conversational silliness (Alice).
• Other crazy AI stuff. Because.

Dependencies

This project assumes that you have rebar installed somwhere in your $PATH.

This project depends upon the following, which are installed to the deps directory of this project when you run make deps:

• LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang; needed only to compile)
• lfeunit (needed only to run the unit tests)

Installation

Just add it to your rebar.config deps:

{deps, [
    ...
    {lfebot, ".*", {git, "git@github.com:lfe/lfebot.git", "master"}}
  ]}.

And then do the usual:

$ rebar get-deps
$ rebar compile

Usage

Running

If you'd like to run erl bot in dev mode (running in the foreground, logging everything to stdout), do the following (you'll need to compile first):

$ make compile
$ make dev

or

$ made run

If you'd like to daemonize the process:

$ make prod

or

$ make daemon

Stopping

If you're running in the foregrund, ^C^C will bring you back to the OS shell.

If you're running in daemonized mode:

$ make stop

Configuring

TBD

Development

Contributing Patches

TBD

Creating Plugins

TBD