A simple IRC bot written using Cinch primarily written to replace the dated "forrstdotcom" bot (based on Skybot) in #forrst-chat on the Freenode network. The bot is capable of showing Google search results, storing quotes, displaying website titles (along with shortening the URLs) and much more.

• 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

• Ruby 1.9.3
• Bundler
• a SQL database such as SQLite3, PostgreSQL or MySQL

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

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.