From: Daniel Moore <yahivin@...>
Date: 2009-10-17T01:34:11+09:00
Subject: [QUIZ] IRC Teams (#221)

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## IRC Teams (#221)

Tashi dele Rubyists,

This week's quiz was suggested by [Martin DeMello][1]

A common feature in IRC-based games is the ability to create and join
teams. The game bot sits in the channel and watches for messages in a
certain format, which it interprets as commands. Write a small gamebot
that accepts the following commands:

create team <teamname>
join <teamname>
leave team
show teams
show team <teamname>
show my team
delete team <teamname>
reset

Here's a typical transcript

<foo> create team ruby
<bot> - created team ruby -
<bar> create team python
<bot> - created team python -
<foo> show teams
<bot> teams: ruby, python
<foo> show team ruby
<bot> team ruby: foo
<bar> show my team
<bot> bar is in team python
<baz> join ruby
<bot> baz is now in team ruby
<bar> show team ruby
<bot> team ruby: foo, baz

Think up some useful extensions, such as the ability to join a user
rather than a team, and restricting some commands like reset to ops.
There are plenty of IRC bot libraries out there, go explore! If one
already does team formation, that's cheating, though :)

Have fun!

[1]: http://zem.novylen.net

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