From: Robert McCorkle <robert.mccorkle@...>
Date: 2006-11-06T02:57:26+09:00
Subject: Re: chats?

where do I start a topic?  I only saw where to subscribe and it  
looked like it wanted replies going to the ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org

On Sunday November 5,2006, at November 5, 9:48AM, David Vallner wrote:

> Robert McCorkle wrote:
>> I'm curious - as a newby- where to find existing code snippets that I
>> can use for chat amongst other things.  I saw that there are
>> repositories but haven't had much luck.  Any recommendations?
>>
>> Robert
>>
>
> 1. You seem to have written this as a reply to a thread with another
> topic. Try to avoid this, hijacking threads is confusing, and they  
> tend
> get derailed horribly over time by themselves already.
>
> 2. Depends on what kind of chat you want. The path of least effort  
> would
> be running a Jabber or IRC server and using the respective Ruby
> bindings. The path of even less effort would be just using existing
> Jabber servers -and- clients, of course. Depends on your purpose,  
> if you
> want to actually run a chat for some other purpose, or want to  
> reinvent
> the wheel for some reason (doing it better, etc.)
>
> David Vallner
>