Like Rack is to Rails and Sinatra, Punchblock provides a consistent API on top of several underlying third-party call control protocols.

Chatbot

Talk to your machines. Like a God.

Execute shell commands, authorizing them against a vines-services access control list.

This gem provides the XMPP plugin to Adhearsion, allowing your Adhearsion application to send and receive messages and react to presence changes.

A ruby library based on Blather for working with the Collecta XMPP api.

A Gem to make Comet-like HTTP connections from XMPP streams

An alternative DSL utilizing the excellent XMPP library, Blather, for creating interactive XMPP bots.

An XMPP Group Chat image search bot in the spirit of Github's Hubot.

A complete solution for PT users.

A friendly event-driven chatbot framework. Supports Twitter and XMPP.

You get some patches for Blather and some classes that wrap the stuff you want from Superfeedr (entries, authors etc.). Under-the-hood, Blather uses EventMachine and Nokogiri so it’s fast and convenient. If you want to daemonize your client, daemon-kit comes ready with a blather template.

A ruby library based on Blather for Superfeedr

Vines Services are dynamically updated groups of systems based on criteria like hostname, installed software, operating system, etc. Send a command to the service and it runs on every system in the group. Services, files and permissions are managed via the bundled web application.

XmppGateway is a server that allows XMPP stanzas to be posted via HTTP POST requests, it provides a synchronous API for IQ messages so that a reply is included in the body of the response