14:20 <proxnal> this is a good support channel I figured out the problem just before asking

14:20 <proxnal> thanks

22:28 <dominikh> no problem

23:03 <proxnal> quick question: what is the correct way of removing control characters/color codes from a message

23:06 <proxnal> i am using regex with [:ctrl:] for now but this does not feel very smart

23:06 <dominikh> there's some function in some module to strip either colors or all non-printable

23:08 <proxnal> hmm i can see that because match appears to have that function as an option

23:08 <dominikh> Cinch::Formatting.unformat to remove formatting. Follow that up with Cinch::Helpers.sanitize to get rid of other control characters

23:09 <dominikh> ah, unformat is also in the Helpers module

23:09 <dominikh> http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/cinch/Cinch/Helpers#sanitize-class_method

23:15 <proxnal> cool thanks

23:46 <proxnal> is there any way to use cinch on irb/pry?

23:46 <dominikh> define that. you can require and use cinch in irb just fine (but set the loggers appropriately so they don't spam stderr). or you can invoke pry in one of your handlers and get a pry shell in the context of the handler

23:49 <proxnal> hm okay how do i use cinch on irb?

23:49 <dominikh> same way you use any ruby in irb?

23:51 <proxnal> so i have to construct a bot to use the helpers etc

23:54 <proxnal> maybe i should learn ruby first because i can't decypher the docs well enough