ruby-ircd is an IRC daemon written in ruby. It extends the generic server of Webrick server.

It was created to to provide the IRC server and client implementations for ruby-hive project.

irc rfcs

FeaturesPure ruby Light Weight Supports Service Bots as threads Can be extended (is a library) Simple (Almost no) configuration Checked with leafchat, weechat, irssi, opera, chatzilla TodoChop commands INVITE others OPER, SQUIT, STATS, LINKS, TIME, CONNECT, TRACE, ADMIN, INFO Check with more clients Usage ircd = IRCServer.new( :Port => 6667 )
begin
trap("INT"){ircd.shutdown}
p = Thread.new {ircd.do_ping()}

1. adding service bots eg:
   #ircd.addservice('TestBot',IrcClient::TestActor)
   ircd.start
   rescue Exception => e
   puts e.message
   endIt is intended to be simple to modify. Have a look at the source if you need custom behavior.