Trying to come up with plugin layout ideas for my own IRC framework... I am too biased right now, so everything is very similar to Cinch.

plugin_layout_ideas.rb

module Sussex
  module Plugins
    # This is just a class for laying out possible plugin ideas.
    # I have been using Cinch for about a year and a half now, so I am quite
    # biased in terms of plugin design for something like this...
    # Note that I also use an include for including methods/etc. into the plugin
    # There are probably other ways of doing this as well.
    class MyPlugin
      include Sussex::Plugin

      # Idea 1: iDSL 'on' method.
      # Very similar to Cinch, and using Dominikh's idea for writing plugins
      # with DSL methods rather than separate 'match', 'listen', etc. methods at
      # some point.
      on :match, /hello, (.+)/ do |m, string|
        if string.eql? @bot.nick
          m.reply "Hello to you too, #{m.nick}!"
        end
      end

      # Idea 2: Separate method call/definition
      # Again, quite a bit similar^W^W^W^Wcopying Cinch. 
      # Maybe I should look into different concepts other than what Cinch has...
      match /hello, (.+)/, method: :hello
      def hello(m, string)
        if string.eql? @bot.nick
          m.reply "Hello to you too, #{m.nick}!"
        end
      end
      
    end
  end
end