# Setting IM status messages

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-im-status-messages/121200>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 25, 2007, 8:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-im-status-messages/121200 "2007-11-25T08:51:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![xgamerx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/d2c977/32.png) [@xgamerx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xgamerx)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 8:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-im-status-messages/121200/1 "2007-11-25T08:51:57Z")

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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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**Author:** ![xgamerx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/d2c977/32.png) [@xgamerx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xgamerx)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-im-status-messages/121200/2 "2007-11-25T16:34:48Z")

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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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**Author:** ![xgamerx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/d2c977/32.png) [@xgamerx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xgamerx)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-im-status-messages/121200/3 "2007-11-25T23:25:30Z")

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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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**Author:** ![xgamerx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/d2c977/32.png) [@xgamerx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xgamerx)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-im-status-messages/121200/4 "2007-11-26T00:30:04Z")

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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