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authorGiuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>2008-03-11 01:20:42 +0100
committerGiuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>2008-03-11 01:22:44 +0100
commitc602a6081007ae1e49a912c13fec0685bb9f9263 (patch)
tree0e40bfb2f3f9ef066be88a20dd9e924c968048d4
parente2018e5df57ec0b4d0e8c1669ea40cafb893eccd (diff)
Documentation cleanups
Fix typos, be more rdocish, and use the README as the main file
-rw-r--r--README48
-rwxr-xr-xbin/rbot39
-rwxr-xr-xdocgen3
-rw-r--r--lib/rbot/rfc2812.rb2
4 files changed, 64 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 3437df9c..7af09f6e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,38 +1,36 @@
-rbot README
-===========
+= rbot - The Ruby IRC bot
rbot is a ruby IRC bot. Think of him as a ruby bot framework with a highly
modular design based around plugins.
-rbot features
-=============
+== rbot features
* Runtime configuration via irc chat
* User authentication and access levels for using different bot features
-* Built in infobot-style keywords. See example session below.
+* Built in infobot-style keywords.
* Support for underlying fact database (infobot fact files), which can
be overridden or supplemented by runtime keyword controls
-* Multi-language support - comes with english, dutch and german definitions
- so far - more translations welcome
+* Multi-language support - comes with english, dutch, german, french, italian
+ japanese, chinese and russian definitions so far - more translations welcome
* Powerful plugin architecture, comes with plugins for:
- o DNS queries
- o Babelfish translation
- o Google searching
- o Excuse generation
- o Insult generation
- o Karma
- o Checking the weather
- o Querying slashdot
- o Doing Math
- o Per-channel quote storage, searching and retrieval
- o Reminders
- o rot13 translation
- o Check the spelling of a word
- o Webserver Server: header examination
- o RPG dice rolling
- o larting people
- o conversation stats
- o more...
+ - DNS queries
+ - Babelfish translation
+ - Google searching
+ - Excuse generation
+ - Insult generation
+ - Karma
+ - Checking the weather
+ - Querying slashdot
+ - Doing Math
+ - Per-channel quote storage, searching and retrieval
+ - Reminders
+ - rot13 translation
+ - Check the spelling of a word
+ - Webserver Server: header examination
+ - RPG dice rolling
+ - larting people
+ - conversation stats
+ - more...
Thanks are owed to the infobot developers - several of rbot's features are
inspired by infobot and so are some of the default plugins. Thanks are also
diff --git a/bin/rbot b/bin/rbot
index 382725c2..8e762569 100755
--- a/bin/rbot
+++ b/bin/rbot
@@ -1,5 +1,41 @@
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+=begin rdoc
+
+= rbot main executable
+
+Usage:
+
+ % rbot [options] [config directory]
+
+== Options
+
+[-h, --help]
+ display a help message and exit
+[-v, --version]
+ display version information and exit
+[-d, --debug]
+ enable debug messages
+[-l, --loglevel _level_]
+ sets the minimum log level verbosity
+[-b, --background]
+ background (daemonize) the bot
+[-p, --pidfile _filename_]
+ write the bot pid to _filename_
+
+The default config directory is <tt>~/.rbot</tt>.
+
+The default pidfile is <tt><i>botdir</i>/rbot.pid</tt>.
+
+The logfile is located at <tt><i>botdir</i>/<i>botname</i>.log</tt>, and
+the default loglevel is 1 (INFO messages). Possible values for the loglevel
+are 0 (DEBUG), 1 (INFO), 2 (WARN), 3 (ERROR), 4 (FATAL).
+
+Please note that the logfile doesn't contain IRC logs (which are located at
+<tt><i>botdir</i>/logs/*</tt>, but only rbot diagnostic messages.
+
+=end
+
# Copyright (C) 2002 Tom Gilbert.
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
@@ -143,8 +179,9 @@ if ($opts["help"])
puts " -h, --help this message"
puts " -v, --version version information"
puts " -d, --debug enable debug messages"
+ puts " -l, --loglevel sets the log level verbosity"
puts " -b, --background background (daemonize) the bot"
- puts " -p, --pidfile write the bot pid to this file"
+ puts " -p, --pidfile write the bot pid to file"
puts "config directory defaults to ~/.rbot"
exit 0
end
diff --git a/docgen b/docgen
index e07cee27..f370f8c2 100755
--- a/docgen
+++ b/docgen
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
#!/bin/sh
-rdoc -a -i 'lib' --exclude 'post-install.rb' --main lib/rbot/ircbot.rb -o doc lib bin/rbot
+rm -rf doc
+rdoc -a -i 'lib' --exclude 'post-install.rb' --main README --title "rbot - The Ruby IRC bot" -o doc lib bin/rbot README
diff --git a/lib/rbot/rfc2812.rb b/lib/rbot/rfc2812.rb
index 375bcc1b..b5203648 100644
--- a/lib/rbot/rfc2812.rb
+++ b/lib/rbot/rfc2812.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
# :title: RFC 2821 Client Protocol module
#
# This module defines the Irc::Client class, a class that can handle and
-# dispatch messages based on RFC 2821i (Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol)
+# dispatch messages based on RFC 2821 (Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol)
module Irc
# - The server sends Replies 001 to 004 to a user upon