Class: Sponge::Plugin

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/sponge/plugin.rb

Overview

Plugin Example

class SayPlugin < Sponge::Plugin
  def reply(m, arg)
    m.reply arg
  end
end

Simple as that, the reply method will get invoked when the say command is used. You can also have plugins ‘listen’ for stuff, for example if you’d like a plugin to print PRIVMSG’s to your terminal you can have a plugin which listens for them.

class ShowMessage < Sponge::Plugin
  listen_to :privmsg

  def listen(m)
    if m.public?
      puts "[#{m.channel}]<#{m.nick}> #{m.text}"
    end
  end
end

And that’s it, the listen method will be invoked whenever the bot see’s a PRIVMSG and it’ll send the Sponge::IRC::Message applicable for this command.

All plugins should be placed into a ‘plugins’ directory. All plugins are loaded on start and cannot be ‘unloaded’ although im sure this feature will be implemented at some time.

Direct Known Subclasses

Help, Log, Login, Logout, Say, SeenPlugin

Constant Summary collapse

LIST =

Our list of plugins

[]
AUTH =

For plugins which require authentication

[]
LISTENERS =

A hash containing IRC commands as keys whose values are Arrays containing a list of commands who are interested in ‘listening’ to them

:privmsg => ['log', 'memo', 'seen']
:join => ['log']

{}

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(bot) ⇒ Plugin

Create a new Plugin instance This is done for every command, if you want to reference the Sponge::Bot instance and also want to create add variables in your plugins constructor then make sure you either call super() or assign @bot in your plugins

Probably a bad idea to use ::new on every Plugin, perhaps create a ‘setup’ method for controlling per plugin options and data in the future

Need to implement a way of setting plugin specific options through class methods without using constants that just store the plugin name (ie AUTH)



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# File 'lib/sponge/plugin.rb', line 90

def initialize(bot)
  @bot = bot
end

Class Method Details

.command ⇒ Object

This works ok, but I should probably add a better way of checking at some point.. heh. Returns ‘say’ from SayPlugin, etc



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# File 'lib/sponge/plugin.rb', line 52

def self.command
  name.downcase.sub(/plugin$/, '')
end

.has_listener?(cmd) ⇒ Boolean

Check if an IRC command has any plugins ‘listening’ for it

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/sponge/plugin.rb', line 57

def self.has_listener?(cmd)
  LISTENERS.key?(cmd.to_s.downcase)
end

.inherited(plugin) ⇒ Object

Throw our plugin straight into the LIST



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# File 'lib/sponge/plugin.rb', line 45

def self.inherited(plugin)
  LIST << plugin
end

.listen_to(*commands) ⇒ Object

Allows a specific plugin to ‘listen’ to irc messages making the plugins a little more interactive



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# File 'lib/sponge/plugin.rb', line 69

def self.listen_to(*commands)
  commands.each do |cmd|
    cmd = cmd.to_s.downcase
    if LISTENERS.key?(cmd)
      LISTENERS[cmd] << command
    else
      LISTENERS[cmd] = [command]
    end
  end
end

.requires_auth ⇒ Object

Plugin requires the nick to be authenticated



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# File 'lib/sponge/plugin.rb', line 62

def self.requires_auth
  AUTH << command
  p AUTH
end

Instance Method Details

#help ⇒ Object

The default help if a specific plugin lacks it



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# File 'lib/sponge/plugin.rb', line 95

def help
  "No help for this plugin"
end

#requires_auth? ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/sponge/plugin.rb', line 104

def requires_auth?
  AUTH.include? self.class.command
end

#usage ⇒ Object

The default usage if a specific plugin lacks it



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# File 'lib/sponge/plugin.rb', line 100

def usage
  "No usage for this plugin"
end