ruby-ircd is an IRC daemon written in ruby. It extends the generic server of Webrick server.

It was created to to provide the IRC server and client implementations for ruby-hive project.

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Features

• Pure ruby
• Light Weight
• Supports Service Bots as threads
• Can be extended (is a library)
• Simple (Almost no) configuration
• Checked with leafchat, weechat, irssi, opera, chatzilla

Todo

• Chop commands [KICK, INVITE]
• others [SERVER, OPER, SQUIT, STATS, LINKS, TIME, CONNECT, TRACE, ADMIN, INFO]
• Check with more clients

Usage

    ircd = IRCServer.new( :Port => 6667 )
    begin
        trap("INT"){ircd.shutdown}
        p = Thread.new {ircd.do_ping()}

        # adding service bots eg:
        #ircd.addservice('TestBot',IrcClient::TestActor)
        ircd.start
    rescue Exception => e
        puts e.message
    end

It is intended to be simple to modify. Have a look at the source if you need custom behavior.