1 Ruby modules needed for rbot
2 ============================
5 tokyocabinet for "tc" DB adaptor
6 http://1978th.net/tokyocabinet/
7 you can install Ruby bindings via "gem install tokyocabinet",
8 but this still requires libtokyocabinet to be installed system-wide
9 bdb (berkeley db) for "bdb" DB adaptor or converting from it
10 http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/bdb/
11 (which requires libdb4.x or better, formerly from
12 www.sleepycat.com, now at
13 http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/index.html)
14 Most of the time you don't need to compile anything.
15 If you're running Linux, your distribution should
16 have a libdb-ruby packaged (or similar).
17 For Windows instructions, check at the bottom
21 net/https (for debian, this will also need libopenssl-ruby)
25 Useful but fallback provided
26 ruby-gettext 1.8.0+ http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html?ruby-gettext
27 optional; if installed rbot can use localized messages
28 htmlentities http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/
29 optional; if installed rbot will use it to decode
30 HTML entities; if missing, an internal table with
31 the most common HTML entities will be used instead
32 hpricot http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/
33 optional, if installed rbot will used it to find
34 the first paragraph in HTML files; if missing,
35 regular expressions will be used instead
39 (these are all optional, if you don't have them, the plugins just won't
42 bash, digg, slashdot, freshmeat, forecast:
53 External programs needed for rbot
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57 (These are all optional)
78 You can install Ruby using the One-Click Ruby installer, available from
79 http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/
81 You can find a precompiled version of the bdb package for ruby here
82 http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mingw/1.8/ext/bdb-0.5.1-i386-mingw32-1.8.tar.gz
84 When you unpack the archive (e.g. using WinZip or 7-Zip or any other tool
85 of your choice) you'll notice that it contains the following directory structure:
90 and you have to move the doc and lib folders (and all their contents) in the folder
91 where you installed Ruby (typically C:\Ruby\)
97 For further instructions, check http://ruby-rbot.org/rbot-trac/wiki/InstallGuide