At Red Hat, all of our instant internal messaging is done through IRC. Because of this, many of our channels have a couple bots in them that do things like process links, report new pull requests, and keep track of users’ karma. What’s cool is that a lot of these bots are actually developed and running on OpenShift, so let’s look at how you could get your own IRC bot running in OpenShift Online V3.
For this project, we’ll be using the Cinch IRC Bot Framework, which is written in Ruby. I chose it because it’s a popular framework with lots of open-sourced plugins already created and because I’ve never used Ruby before. So now that we have our platform and framework, let’s get started! For the purpose of this post, I’ll assume you’ve never used OpenShift or Cinch, but have a basic understanding of Git and Ruby (or, in my case, Google).
