# Rails and a Jabber (Gtalk) Bot **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 7, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-a-jabber-gtalk-bot/71373 "2006-10-07T23:24:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alex_MacCaw)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-a-jabber-gtalk-bot/71373/1 "2006-10-07T23:24:31Z")
I’m building a jabber bot for my cms eribium ([http://www.eribium.org](http://www.eribium.org)). Is it possible to give access to the script/console of rails? Obviously the bot can’t be part of rails as the long requests would crash the fast cgi - but is there a way to “include” rails? All I’m looking for is a way of querying the rails app for information and status, as well as a way of CRUDing pages. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alex_MacCaw)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-a-jabber-gtalk-bot/71373/2 "2006-10-08T00:11:07Z")
On Saturday 07 October 2006 23:24, Alex MacCaw wrote: > I’m building a jabber bot for my cms eribium > ([http://www.eribium.org](http://www.eribium.org)). Is it possible to give access to the > script/console of rails? Obviously the bot can’t be part of rails as > the long requests would crash the fast cgi - but is there a way to > “include” rails? Hi Alex, the bot can’t be part of the process serving web requests, but it can access the app’s model just the same. If you require ‘config/environment’ in the bot you have all you need. > All I’m looking for is a way of querying the rails > app for information and status, as well as a way of CRUDing pages. I may not understand what you’re trying to do, but where do pages come into the mix? What more do you need when you can get at the model directly? Michael – Michael S. [mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [http://www.schuerig.de/michael/](http://www.schuerig.de/michael/) ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alex_MacCaw)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-a-jabber-gtalk-bot/71373/3 "2006-10-08T13:53:08Z")
Thanks Michael, All working now. Is is possible to give access to the rails console (a bit like [http://tryruby.hobix.com/](http://tryruby.hobix.com/)) through the jabber interface. > the bot can’t be part of the process serving web requests, but it can > access the app’s model just the same. If you > require ‘config/environment’ in the bot you have all you need. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alex_MacCaw)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-a-jabber-gtalk-bot/71373/4 "2006-10-08T14:56:12Z")
On Sunday 08 October 2006 13:53, Alex MacCaw wrote: > Thanks Michael, > All working now. > Is is possible to give access to the rails console (a bit like > [http://tryruby.hobix.com/](http://tryruby.hobix.com/)) through the jabber interface. > > > the bot can’t be part of the process serving web requests, but it > > can access the app’s model just the same. If you > > require ‘config/environment’ in the bot you have all you need. I think there’s a gem called tryruby or something available on RubyForge. Unfortunately, it appears to be down at the moment, so I cannot check. Michael – Michael S. [mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [http://www.schuerig.de/michael/](http://www.schuerig.de/michael/) ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alex_MacCaw)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 5:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-a-jabber-gtalk-bot/71373/5 "2006-10-10T05:51:32Z")
On Oct 8, 2006, at 4:53 AM, Alex MacCaw wrote: > Thanks Michael, > All working now. > Is is possible to give access to the rails console (a bit like > [http://tryruby.hobix.com/](http://tryruby.hobix.com/)) through the jabber interface. Cool, its working! great, so now I’m curious… what is the gist of what you’re trying to do? – Craig B. AIM: kreiggers