Recently I’ve come across a ruby irc server called camper_van. What it
does is pretty simple: it communicates with Campfire while acting as an
IRC server. That, combined with irssi makes it much more fun to use
Campfire for work.
The following is a simple script that starts the server (if not already running) and then opens up irssi in a new gnome-terminal session.
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| #! /usr/bin/env sh | |
| RUBY_VERSION="1.9.1" | |
| SERVER="${HOME}/.gem/ruby/${RUBY_VERSION}/bin/camper_van" | |
| PIDFILE="/tmp/camper_van.pid" | |
| if [ ! -e ${SERVER} ]; then | |
| echo "CamperVan server not found at '${SERVER}'." | |
| fi | |
| function start_server { | |
| echo "CamperVan server not running, starting it now." | |
| "${SERVER}" & | |
| echo $! >${PIDFILE} | |
| sleep 2 | |
| } | |
| if [ ! -e ${PIDFILE} ]; then | |
| start_server | |
| else | |
| pid=`cat ${PIDFILE}` | |
| if [ ! -e /proc/$pid -a /proc/$pid/exe ]; then | |
| start_server | |
| fi | |
| fi | |
| gnome-terminal -e irssi |
The second file is an example irssi config file (merge it with
~/.irssi/config).
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| servers = ( | |
| { | |
| address = "127.0.0.1"; | |
| chatnet = "Campfire"; | |
| port = "6667"; | |
| autoconnect = "true"; | |
| password = "subdomain:token"; | |
| } | |
| ); | |
| chatnets = { | |
| Campfire = { type = "IRC"; }; | |
| }; | |
| channels = ( | |
| { name = "#roomname"; chatnet = "Campfire"; autojoin = "yes"; } | |
| ); |