irc-logger

irc-logger is IRC (Internet Reley Chat) logging and searching engine! It is complete merb application which you can use on your own domain.

How to install

Dependencies

System depenendencies

• Ruby Interpreter >= 1.8.6
• Memcached System >= 1.2
• Sphinx Search Engine >= 0.9.8
• PostgreSQL >= 8.2

Ruby Gems

• merb >= 1.0.4
• datamapper >= 0.9.8
• do_postgres >= 0.9.8
• starling >= 0.9.8
• dm-sphinx-adapter >= 0.6
• net-yail >= 1.2
• memcached >= 1.0

Installation

1. Make sure that you have installed dependencies
2. Create database (currently supported only PostgreSQL - you can try with others on you own risk)
3. Get the sources git clone git://github.com/alfanick/irc-logger.git or download the stable version
4. Create directories mkdir tmp var
5. Configure irc-logger
   • Copy config/database.example.yml to config/database.yml
     • Set there hostname, username, password, database name
   • Copy config/sphinx.example.conf to config/sphinx.conf
     • Set there hostname, username, password, database name
   • Set memcache servers in config/cache.yml
     • If you want you can change caching times (in seconds)
   • Configure bot listeners (copy config/bot.example.yml to config/bot.yml(
     • Set starling server
     • Add listeners names, nicknames, passwords and emails
       • Irc-logger will register nickname
       • Remember to pass valid and unique email, because some servers like to check this
   • Add database indexing to cron rake sphinx:delta sphinx:merge
6. Initialize database rake db:automigrate.
7. Initialize sphinx rake sphinx:setup
8. Initialize sphinx index rake sphinx:main
9. Add some channels using rake irc:join url=server.host/#channel
10. Configure web server (irc-logger is Rack application)

Running

1. Run memcache server
2. Run starling server
3. Run irc listeners rake irc:listener name=my_listener_0 (to stop them see next point)
4. Run irc logging rake irc:listen - to disable kill this process (^C) and run rake irc:stop to disable listeners
5. Run sphinx searching deamon rake sphinx:listen - to stop run rake sphinx:stop
6. That's all - make sure that web server is working!

License

irc-logger - IRC logging and searching engine Copyright (C) 2008 Amadeusz Jasak

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

Author

If you have questions write to Amadeusz Jasak (the author). Please donate!