1 Ruby modules needed for rbot
2 ============================
5 bdb (berkley db) http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/bdb/
6 (which requires libdb4.x or better, formerly from
7 www.sleepycat.com, now at
8 http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/index.html)
9 Most of the time you don't need to compile anything.
10 If you're running Linux, your distribution should
11 have a libdb-ruby packaged (or similar).
12 For Windows instructions, check at the bottom
15 net/https (for debian, this will also need libopenssl-ruby)
19 Useful but fallback provided
20 ruby-gettext 1.8.0+ http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html?ruby-gettext
21 optional; if installed rbot can use localized messages
22 htmlentities http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/
23 optional; if installed rbot will use it to decode
24 HTML entities; if missing, an internal table with
25 the most common HTML entities will be used instead
26 hpricot http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/
27 optional, if installed rbot will used it to find
28 the first paragraph in HTML files; if missing,
29 regular expressions will be used instead
33 (these are all optional, if you don't have them, the plugins just won't
36 bash, digg, slashdot, freshmeat, forecast:
47 External programs needed for rbot
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51 (These are all optional)
72 You can install Ruby using the One-Click Ruby installer, available from
73 http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/
75 You can find a precompiled version of the bdb package for ruby here
76 http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mingw/1.8/ext/bdb-0.5.1-i386-mingw32-1.8.tar.gz
78 When you unpack the archive (e.g. using WinZip or 7-Zip or any other tool
79 of your choice) you'll notice that it contains the following directory structure:
84 and you have to move the doc and lib folders (and all their contents) in the folder
85 where you installed Ruby (typically C:\Ruby\)
91 For further instructions, check http://ruby-rbot.org/rbot-trac/wiki/InstallGuide