Bot and API do not work simultaneously

[travislikestocode]

I'm trying to get PaaS to work, I installed all of the required gems on my Debian box. The bot works great by itself, and the API runs great by itself too. However when I run ./bot.rb -a -p xxxx, the bot is totally nonfunctional. I get no error messages, it just doesn't work. Nothing happens when I change my presence or message the bot. I can't figure out why, but I took a couple captures of the debug output for each command you can look at:

http://www.pastie.org/820406 - working - ruby -d bot.rb
http://www.pastie.org/820408 - not working ruby -d bot.rb -a -p 8080

I also just noticed that if I hit control c on the second command, it kills the webserver and the bot starts working again.

I'd really appreciate it if you would take a look and let me know if there's anything I can do to fix it. Here's a paste of my myconfig.rb -http://www.pastie.org/820432
Another thing - bot doesn't pick up status messages for 'unavailable' presence messages - in case you weren't aware.

Running debian 5

[zh]

There is something strange with your gem installation - why there are so many messages about missing gems (including some Win32-related once).
But in general - you can run the bot and the API independent.

• the bot is EventMachine-based daemon. To run just the bot, do not use -a option. So the run command will be: ruby bot.rb . You can use screen to put the daemon in background.
• the API is sinatra based. To start it: rackup -p [some port] from the PaaS directory (the one with config.ru file)

And I'm not sure if you authorized the bot itself, because it's getting 'unavailable' presences for me - take a look on http://status.zhware.net/
Running the bot and the API separated will maybe tell you more about missing or not installed correctly gems.

[travislikestocode]

Ok I got it to work now using ./bot & and then running rackup -p 8080. When I do ./bot and ./api -p 8080, the bot works but sinatra 404s. So now I only have 2 things:

What's the best way to get both the bot and the API to run at system startup? I want to use PAAS as an always on daemon.

I should have been more specific. When you send a status message with an unavailable stanza, paas bot doesn't log the status message, but it does show that you're unavailable. All other presence types will show a status message except unavailable.

[zh]

On my system I'm using PaaS, started with: ruby ./bot -a -p xxxx inside screen.
There is nothing daemon related in the current implementation, so maybe your -d option is not very suitable.
For running like a daemon on startup, you can use DJB daemontools ( http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html ) or if you are on ubuntu - /etc/event.d/ script .
For the unavailable stanzas: i'm not doing some special processing for them, so if there is no status message - it's XMPP ruby implementation specific. Maybe use XA stanzas - they have message for sure.