Setting IM status messages

Rails
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I am trying to write a rails application where I can set the status of a
person’s AIM account based on what they type in my site. So they should
be able to browse to my site, and then type in their status (and
username and password) into a textbox and press “Go” and it should
change the status of their AIM account accordingly.

How would I go about achieving this goal?

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On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 08:51:57AM +0100, Nathan E. wrote:

I am trying to write a rails application where I can set the status of a
person’s AIM account based on what they type in my site. So they should
be able to browse to my site, and then type in their status (and
username and password) into a textbox and press “Go” and it should
change the status of their AIM account accordingly.

How would I go about achieving this goal?

Look into the ruburple gem.

–Greg

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As someone else suggested, rubpurple works but you might also want to
look into Net::TOC.

–Jeremy

On Nov 25, 2007 2:51 AM, Nathan E.
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Thanks for your guys suggestions. I am going to give Ruburple a try
because it supports multiple protocols.

One thing is that I can’t find any documentation for it at all. Can
someone point me to the rdoc or something?

I need to make sure that I can actually set away / status messages using
the library. Is this possible?

Finally, I cannot figure out how to install it.

I tried:

gem install ruburple -y

but it failed most likely because I don’t have the dependencies:

libpurple 2.0.0
glib-2.0
pkg-config

Can someone point me to a guide or explain simply how I can go about
actually getting ruburple installed. I am on windows for development so
please help if you can.

Thanks so much