00:25 <audy> I want to write a bot that sends me a message when a file is changed without me having to give a command. Is there a way to do this with cinch?

00:25 <dominikh> sure.

00:26 <dominikh> your_bot.User("your_nick").send("your message") from whereever you are detecting the file change, for example

00:27 <audy> dominikh and run this in a separate thread?

00:27 <dominikh> yea

00:27 <audy> dominikh okay thanks

15:56 <romulobr> hi guys, I'm new to cinch, and want to add help functionality to a bot. can you point me to some docs that would help? Maybe some example?

15:59 <waxjar> you can set a plugin name with set :plugin_name and set a help message with set :help, 'help string here', it'll automatically display when you call !help <plugin_name>

15:59 <romulobr> thanks a lot!

16:00 <romulobr> is there a way to show a default message, to be displayed when someone call just !help ?

16:01 <dominikh> add a match for the help command

16:01 <waxjar> no that i know of. i just did a simple on '!help' match that links to a web page

16:02 <waxjar> *not

16:02 <romulobr> ok waxjar thanks again, you were very helpful.

16:02 <waxjar> yw :)

16:03 <romulobr> another quick question, I just got banned from a server while testing my bot (too many disconnects), do you know a good place to test it without getting into trouble?

16:04 <dominikh> freenode is relatively lax about reconnects. other options are setting up your own server or putting the bot behind a bouncer/proxy

16:04 <romulobr> ok, thank you again.

16:16 <romulobr> waxjar: do I need to set anything else to enable this help feature?

16:21 <waxjar> it does it all automatically as far as i know

16:22 <dominikh> it's automatic.

16:23 <romulobr> ok, thanks again guys… it's not working here for some reason, I'll try to figure it out.

16:23 <dominikh> show some code :)

16:28 <romulobr> here, thanks again: http://pastebin.com/dgVLrGpC

16:29 <romulobr> this plugin is working correctly, but the help text is not being shown

16:29 <dominikh> how are you trying to invoke the help?

16:29 <romulobr> I'm calling !help ssl

16:29 <romulobr> on the channel

16:29 <dominikh> actually, the help command inherits the plugin's prefix

16:30 <dominikh> so in this case it'd be a very awkward !ssl help ssl

16:31 <romulobr> Thank you again! You are very helpful! It worked like a charm.

16:59 <romulobr> I'm building an help index plugin and thinking if there's a way to get the list of available plugin_names, do you guys know hot to get that list? I can see a class called PluginList on the docs but the doc page is empty.

17:01 <dominikh> god rubydoc.info is starting to really piss me off

17:01 <dominikh> try http://rubydoc.info/github/cinchrb/cinch/Cinch/PluginList instead. all you need to know, however, is that it's an array

17:01 <dominikh> so something like bot.plugins.each {} would iterate over all loaded plugins

17:01 <romulobr> thanks again!

22:01 <romulobr> is there a way to change the !help command to reply as a private message instead of on the main channel?

22:15 <dominikh> nope. you'll have to write your own matchers for that and not use the built-in help

22:17 <waxjar> how can you turn that one off though?

22:19 <dominikh> don't set the help string

22:20 <romulobr> no problem, thanks again, I really appreciate your help. We just monkey-patched it for the moment.

22:33 <maetthew> Is it possible to match for my bots nick in a match?

22:33 <maetthew> I mean in a dynamic way

22:33 <dominikh> prefixes, and matches, can have lambdas instead of strings/regexps

22:33 <dominikh> the lambda is passed the message object that is being matched against

22:33 <dominikh> the message object references the bot and you can get the nick via that

22:34 <maetthew> dominikh: thanks :)

23:24 <maetthew> dominikh: is there a reason i can't use variables as prefixes?

23:24 <dominikh> only you doing it wrong I suppose

23:24 <maetthew> so i _can_ use them?

23:25 <dominikh> variables? sure. any variable that is known in the class scope at the time the code is evaluated

23:25 <maetthew> i can :P it is me doing it wrong