IRC notification script (Uses supybot-notify, or a similar IRC bot)

privmsg

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

# Send privmsg (IRC notifications).
# Contacts a supybot-notify service, on a currently hardcoded host and port,
# and sends either the message sent as a parameter, or pipes everything from
# standard input
#
# Author: Mikael Fridh <mfridh@marinsoftware.com>
# Copyright (c) 2012 Marin Software
#
# ChangeLog
# * Tue Jan 03 2012 Mikael Fridh <mfridh@marinsoftware.com> - 0.1
# - Initial version
#

require 'socket'
require 'logger'
require 'syslog'
require 'rubygems'
require 'optparse'

program = File.basename($0)

channel = nil
verbose = false

optparse = OptionParser.new do |opts|
  opts.banner = "Usage: #{program} -c '#channel' 'the message'"

  opts.on("-cMANDATORY", "--channel=MANDATORY", 
          "The message recipient.") do |c|
            channel = c
  end

  opts.on("-v", "--verbose",
          "Enable verbose mode.") do |v|
    verbose = true
  end

  begin
    ARGV << "-h" if ARGV.size < 1
    opts.parse!(ARGV)
  rescue OptionParser::ParseError
    $stderr.print "Error: " + $! + "\n"
    exit
  end
end.parse!

message = ARGV.first || nil

client = TCPSocket.open('supybot-notify', '5050')

if (!message) then
  STDIN.each_line do |line|
    line.chomp!
    line.gsub!(/([^\t]*)(\t)/) { $1 + " " * (8 - $1.length % 8) }
    unless line.empty?
      p "#{channel} #{line}" if verbose
      client.send("#{channel} #{line}\n", 0) # 0 means standard packet
    end
  end
else
  client.send("#{channel} #{message}", 0)
end
client.close