rbot 0.9.10

rbot is a ruby IRC bot. Think of him as a ruby bot framework with a highly modular design based around plugins. It is somekind of a infobot. See more RbotFeatures, or perhaps an ExampleSession.
Main features:
- Runtime configuration via irc chat
- User authentication and access levels for using different bot features
- Built in infobot-style keywords. See example session below.
- Support for underlying fact database (infobot fact files), which can be overridden or supplemented by runtime keyword controls
- Multi-language support - comes with english, dutch and german definitions so far - more translations welcome
- Powerful plugin architecture, comes with plugins for:
- DNS queries
- Babelfish translation
- Google searching
- Excuse generation
- Insult generation
- Karma
- Checking the weather
- Querying slashdot
- Doing Math
- Per-channel quote storage, searching and retrieval
- Reminders
- rot13 translation
- Check the spelling of a word
- Webserver Server: header examination
- RPG dice rolling
- larting people
- conversation stats
- more...
Enhancements:
- Many new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
- A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
- Improvements to network and server code, which should provide greater stability.
- A new message queueing mechanism with bit rate throttling.
- A new logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot.
- A new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional usage of bdb for resilience.
- More integration with Nickserv where available, including optional automatic ghost-killing.