https://github.com/yorickpeterse/hermes

https://github.com/yorickpeterse/hermes

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/yorickpeterse/hermes
• Owner: yorickpeterse
• License: mit
• Created: 2012-06-27T21:34:06.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-09-29T18:59:41.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-02T01:14:56.277Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Size: 455 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Hermes

Hermes is an IRC bot that annoys people in `#webdevs` (previously

`#forrst-chat`) on Freenode. It was originally written to replace the

"forrstdotcom" bot.

## Features

* uses Cinch, a well developed and documented IRC bot framework

* wide variety of plugins for retrieving URL titles, storing quotes, retrieving

  cat pictures (very important), displaying the weather and so on

* it doesn't leak memory as bad as Skybot does

## Requirements

* Ruby 1.9.3

* Bundler

* a SQL database such as SQLite3, PostgreSQL or MySQL

## Installation & Setup

The first step is to clone this repository:

    $ git://github.com/YorickPeterse/Hermes.git hermes

    $ cd hermes

Once cloned you can install all the dependencies using Bundler:

    $ bundle install

If you don't have Bundler installed you'll have to run `gem install bundler` in

order to install it.

Once installed you should copy the default configuration file(s):

    $ cp config/config.default.rb config/config.rb

Starting the bot can be done by running the following command:

    $ ruby bin/hermes

## License

All the code in this repository is licensed under the MIT license unless stated

otherwise. A copy of this license can be found in the file "LICENSE" in the

root directory of this repository.