# Is there a way to send chat message via AOL AIM (with ruby of course!)

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**Created:** [January 31, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-send-chat-message-via-aol-aim-with-ruby-of-course/127639 "2008-01-31T00:50:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-send-chat-message-via-aol-aim-with-ruby-of-course/127639/1 "2008-01-31T00:50:46Z")

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poking around, there seem to be numerous walking dead projects, anyone  
have any first hand experience before I go down this path?

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-send-chat-message-via-aol-aim-with-ruby-of-course/127639/2 "2008-01-31T02:01:15Z")

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I have seen people use swig to wrap the pidgin libs.

There is another project but I dont think it works any more:

[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=54](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=54)

Good luck  
Becker

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-send-chat-message-via-aol-aim-with-ruby-of-course/127639/3 "2008-01-31T04:12:01Z")

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Here is a really quick tutorial:

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I played around with it. Pretty cool, just don’t have a use for it.

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-send-chat-message-via-aol-aim-with-ruby-of-course/127639/4 "2008-01-31T04:58:24Z")

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The net-toc library is excellent for AIM. My books shows you how to  
use it (see my sig) but there’s some info on the web I think, too.

–Jeremy

On Jan 30, 2008 6:49 PM, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> poking around, there seem to be numerous walking dead projects, anyone  
> have any first hand experience before I go down this path?

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