1 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
3 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
4 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
5 * reworking the config system key names
6 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
7 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
8 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
9 bot's language at runtime.
11 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
12 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
13 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
14 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
20 def complexfoo(m, params)
21 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
28 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
29 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
30 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
31 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
32 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
33 # you can also gobble up into an array
34 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
35 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
36 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
39 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
41 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
42 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
43 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
44 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
46 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
48 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
49 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
50 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
52 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
54 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
55 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
56 according to bot config.
58 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
60 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
61 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
62 * New feature: karmastats
64 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
66 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
67 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
69 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
70 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
71 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
72 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
73 interfere with other plugin commands.
75 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
77 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
79 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
83 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
88 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
90 * searching for urls in the url plugin
91 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
93 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
95 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
96 working so I guess it changed again since then
97 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
99 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
101 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
103 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
104 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
105 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
107 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
112 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
116 * various plugin updates
117 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
118 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
119 changes and related information
122 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
123 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
124 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
125 * status command returns some bot status
127 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
128 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
129 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
130 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
131 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
132 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
133 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
134 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
135 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
138 * plugin object registry
139 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
140 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
141 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
142 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
146 @registry[:blah] = blah
147 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
148 can access the blah object as it was, with:
149 blah = @registry[:blah]
150 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
151 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
154 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
155 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
156 example (in your plugin):
167 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
168 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
169 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
171 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
172 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
173 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
174 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
175 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
176 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
177 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
178 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
179 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
180 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
182 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
183 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
184 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
186 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
187 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
188 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
189 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
190 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
191 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
193 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
195 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
196 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
197 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
199 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
200 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
201 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
202 original infobot math module)
203 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
204 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
205 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
206 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
207 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
208 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
209 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
210 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
212 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
213 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
214 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
215 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
216 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
217 imported and merged into the database.
218 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
219 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
221 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
225 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
226 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
227 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
228 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
229 not intended and should be fixed now
230 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
231 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
232 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
233 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
234 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
235 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
236 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
237 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
238 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
239 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
240 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
241 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
242 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
243 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
249 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
250 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
251 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
252 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
253 can be added on the fly.
254 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
259 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
261 * fixes to a few other buglets
262 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
263 folks who love bb :-)
264 * fixes to various plugins
265 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
266 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
267 Fix bug joining channels with keys
271 * better "connect failure" error message
272 * better option parsing, and --debug option
273 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
275 ./rbot.rb --help core
276 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
277 * Fix broken help from last point release
278 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
279 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
280 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
281 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
282 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
283 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
284 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
286 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
290 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
294 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
296 * rdoc documentation!
297 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
298 form of "foo" (lost the .)
299 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
303 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
304 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
305 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
307 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
309 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
310 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
311 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
315 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
316 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
320 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
321 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
322 * fix searchquote regexp
323 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
324 which is for master auth.
328 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
329 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
330 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
332 * more language breadth
333 * Addressing works better now
334 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
335 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5