From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-12-26T08:04:58+09:00
Subject: Re: challenged with signal

On Dec 25, 3:23 pm, Junkone <junko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> I am playing around with the jabber bot fron the linkhttp://nearlyfree.org/fun-jabber-bots.
>
> I get a error at the following code next to trap. not sure why it is
> happening. i thought you could send any string to trap a signal. can
> someone help.

The documentation for Kernel#trap wants to help...but you have to let
it. ;)

> E:\Tools\CODE>ruby bot1.rb
> bot1.rb:23:in `trap': unsupported signal SIGUSR1 (ArgumentError)
>         from bot1.rb:23
>
> # Wait for the USR1 signal and read a message from ~/.jbot/message
> trap("USR1") {
>   begin
>     bot.deliver(bot.master,File.new(File.join(home, "message")).read)
>   rescue Exception => e
>     puts e
>   end

Regard,
Jordan