This is a good exercise for learning more about Elixir, Erlang and OTP. Furthermore, Hal greatly benefits from the features provided by OTP: GenServer, Supervisor or even Hot code loading.
Everything in methal9k is handle by Mix and the project's
Makefile. To run the bot, simply execute: make run.
Two Dockerfiles are available for:
- compiling, creating the release and running the bot
- debugging against a real IRC server
To launch everything, follow those steps:
# 1. build and run the bot and ngIRCd (port 6697)
make docker-dev
# 2. to stop everything
make docker-stopYou should have the bot running and connected to ngIRCd. You can play with the container as usual,
for example to see the logs docker attach methal9k.bot.
For more information or options, checkout the goals available inside the Makefile.
If you feel something is wrong with the way Hal is done, I welcome any suggestion, criticism or contribution.
This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPLv3 License. See the LICENSE file for more details.