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

Not exactly an answer to your question, but it may be helpful. If you are using Ruby, I have found the Autumn Leaves project to be a great way to build an IRC bot using Ruby:

http://github.com/RISCfuture/autumn/tree/master

It is pretty much the Jibble of the Ruby world.