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Basil is a simple bot inspired by #archlinux's phrik, github's hubot, and others. The main goals were skype integration and ease of plugin creation. The bot is/was also used as a toy-project for me to explore ruby.

Getting started

$ git clone https://github.com/pbrisbin/basil
$ cd basil
$ bundle install
$ cp config/example.yml config/basil.yml
$ bundle exec bin/basil
> test

This process installs basil and starts him using the :cli server. This is a simple interactive prompt running as if you were in private chat.

To use basil with Skype, please see Skype integration.

Current features

Basil can...

• Google for something
• Fetch info on Jira tickets, Jenkins builds and airbrake errors
• Store and fetch quotes, "factoids" and karmic values
• Periodically check his email and take an in-chat action as a result
• Tweet something
• Leave messages for someone on your behalf
• and much more...

For the full set, see plugins/*.rb.