Programming a simple IRC (Internet-Relay-Chat) Client

Question

I started using IRC at a young age, and I have always been fascinated with it. As a language exercise, I was thinking about programming a simple IRC client in Ruby with Shoes a

Answer 1

I found this gem on Wikipedia. Sounds intimidating.

It's actually not.

Telnet onto an IRC Server and witness the simplicity of the protocol first hand. The hardest part is the handshake, after that its very simple.