Rica -Ruby Internet relay Chat Agents-

What's Rica?

Features

• Multiple server connection supported
• Event driven classes
• Easy to create user agents
• 100% pure Ruby :)

Requirement

• Ruby 1.6.x
• Socket, Thread, Observer, Singleton, Delegate and Kconv libraries (Ruby archive consits all of those liblaries.)
• A little bit of your energy

Download

• The latest version is rica-0.10 (Nov.11.2001), includes console application software "Ricaco" and Gtk application software "Erica".
  Ricaco requires jcode and curses liblaries. Erica requires Ruby/GTK.

Reference Manual

• Rica Reference Manual (HTML/English) (Under Construction)

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Rica is copyrighted free software by NISHI Takao <zophos@koka-in.org>. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the Artistic.

Change Log

rica-0.10 (Nov.11.2001.)

• Rica::MessageDistributor's Excess flood protection intensified.
• .gtkrc supported at Erica.
• A code for connection diagnostic "connectiondiag.rb" added.
• Buffer auto freezing supprted at Erica.
• Some bugs in Rica::MessageDistributor are fixed.
• A sample code of bot "rica-example.rb" includes.

rica-0.9 (Sep.26.2001.)

• GTK application "Erica" is included.
• Rica::Event::USER_EVENT added.
• Rica::Message::string bug fixed.
• A lot of Rica::LogHolder's bugs fixed.
• Rica's formal name is changed.

rica-0.8.1 (Aug.30.2001.)

• Repackaging, because logholder.rb is too old and has too many bugs.

rica-0.8 (Aug.29.2001.)

• Rica::Rica renamed to Rica::MessageProcessor.
• Message dispatch methods in Rica::Rica are moved to Rica::Event.
• ctcpresponder.rb added. Rica::CtcpResponder moved to ctcpresponder.rb.
• Rica::CtcpResponder.userinfo bug fixed.
• logholder.rb added. It includes Rica::LogHolder module. But not tested.

rica-0.7 (Aug.24.2001.)

• All modules and classes are dispositioned under Rica. Many modules and classes are renamed. Sorry for many mess.
• Server alias support.
• ctcpresponcer.rb is obsoluted.
• WRITE_PRIORITY_DEFUALT changes 0.3 to 1.

rica-0.6 (Aug.23.2001.)

• eof bug fixed.
• auto re-connection supported.
• Methods those matche to IrcEvent are added in Rica class.
  No longer you may not override Rica#update method.
• ctcpresponcer.rb is revivaled. (rica_utils.rb is obsoluted.)

rica-0.5 (Mar.15.2001.)

• Each instance of Rica has own thread.
• IrcConnector's threads are gathered one at IrcConnectionManager.
• Ricaco ping timeout bug fixed

rica-0.4 (Mar.5.2001.) (not issued)

• IrcEvent changed from Class to Module
• CtcpResponcer move to rica_utils.rb

rica-0.3 (Mar.3.2001.)

• A bug of Link closeing is fixed.

rica-0.3pre (Mar.1.2001.)

• Include "Ricaco".

rica-0.2 (Feb.26.2001.)

• Added Kanji Code Option.
• Some irc command helper added.
• Fixed IRCNet PONG problem.

rica-0.1 (Feb.25.2001.)

• Alpha Release