gem install chef-jabber-snitch

Append the following to your Chef client configs, usually at /etc/chef/client.rb

# Notify admins via IRC when a Chef run fails
require 'chef-jabber-snitch'

:

jabber_user = "alice@gmail.com"
jabber_password = "password"
jabber_server = "talk.google.com"
jabber_to = "bob@gmail.com"
github_user = "foobar"
github_token = "asKkwqofovX3shBmtMf8EWhDzSr7ouUb"

jabber_handler = JabberSnitch.new(jabber_user, jabber_password, jabber_to, github_user, github_token, jabber_server)
exception_handlers << jabber_handler

Chef-Jabber-Snitch is released under the MIT license.