Like Rack is to Rails and Sinatra, Punchblock provides a consistent API on top of several underlying third-party call control protocols.

Chatbot

This gem provides the XMPP plugin to Adhearsion, allowing your Adhearsion application to send and receive messages and react to presence changes.

A ruby library based on Blather for working with the Collecta XMPP api.

A Gem to make Comet-like HTTP connections from XMPP streams

An alternative DSL utilizing the excellent XMPP library, Blather, for creating interactive XMPP bots.

Talk to your machines. Like a God.

An XMPP Group Chat image search bot in the spirit of Github's Hubot.

A complete solution for PT users.

A friendly event-driven chatbot framework. Supports Twitter and XMPP.

You get some patches for Blather and some classes that wrap the stuff you want from Superfeedr (entries, authors etc.). Under-the-hood, Blather uses EventMachine and Nokogiri so it’s fast and convenient. If you want to daemonize your client, daemon-kit comes ready with a blather template.

A ruby library based on Blather for Superfeedr

Execute shell commands, authorizing them against a vines-services access control list.

Vines Services are dynamically updated groups of systems based on criteria like hostname, installed software, operating system, etc. Send a command to the service and it runs on every system in the group. Services, files and permissions are managed via the bundled web application.

XmppGateway is a server that allows XMPP stanzas to be posted via HTTP POST requests, it provides a synchronous API for IQ messages so that a reply is included in the body of the response