girc-wookie

Quickly adding an IRC web service to a GitHub repository

I made this small project to solve a very minor issue in my development projects. I often found myself forgetting to add the IRC webhook to my projects, or not wanting to take the time to do it. Since pretty much all my projects have the exact same configuration for their IRC webhooks, I figured I may as well write a script to do it for me with essentially the same configuration. Thus, this project was born.

To install the Wookie, simply execute the following

$ gem install girc-wookie

The Wookie is run with the wookie command.

When called on its own (e.g., $ wookie) it will output some basic usage information.

It takes a single argument, which is the path to the YAML configuration file. It can be named anything.

$ wookie /Users/me/Desktop/wookie.yaml

When the script has finished, it will state simply Finished. and exit. See below for info about the YAML file.

There is a sample YAML file in the source code named example.yaml. It has the following.

• github A hash containing information regarding the GitHub user and repository.
  • username The username. Optional if auth_code is used.
  • password The password. Optional if auth_code is used.
  • repo The repository to add the webhook to.
  • auth_code The personal access token. Optional if username and password are used. This will take priority over user/pass authentication.
• irc A hash containing the configuration for the IRC hook.
  • server The IRC server.
  • port The port. Often this is 6667
  • room The IRC room to connect to. Technically, it takes a string with rooms separated by , .
  • branches The branches to use. Use null if you care about all of them.
  • nickserv_password The nickserv password to authenticate with. Use null if you don't need to authenticate.
  • ssl A boolean of whether to use SSL connections or not.
  • no_join Whether to NOT join the channel. Use false to join, true to not join.
  • no_colors Whether to NOT use colors. Use false if you like colors, or true if you don't.
  • notice Whether to send the message through a notice.
  • nick The nickname to send the messages as.