A messy bot for making memes in IRC channels

Installation

1. You need ruby 2.0 or newer. I coded against 2.1. You also need rmagick AND graphics magick
2. Clone the git repo
3. run bundle install to get the dependencies. This may fail on rmagick. If it does, google till you figure it out. Its simple, I promise. If you run a Debian-based distro, running sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat libmagickwand-dev works.
4. Rename config.example.yml to config.yml
5. Fill out config.yml. You will need an Imgur api key
6. Start the bot via ruby bot.rb

Usage

The bot is fairly simple to use via IRC, providing only two commands:

• !memes lists the memes the bot knows about, the filenames, sans extension, of jpgs in the memes folder
• !meme [m:memename] <toptext>;<bottomtext> creates a meme. m:memename specifies the meme to use, semicolon is required and separates top and bottom meme text.

Caveats

This bot was written in a single nights bathtub coding session. As such its ugly as hell and probably full of bugs. As with everything else under the MIT license, use at your own risk.

Additionally, if you run this on a server that doesn't reboot very often, chances are your /tmp folder will fill up with meme images.

Since people tend to use /tmp for lots of useful things, such as sockets and other stuff, I've provided a script, tmpclean.rb you can run periodically to clean memes out of your /tmp. I recommend adding this to a nightly cron-job.

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Jeff Sandberg

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