Experimental Elixir IRCd

Goals:

• Learn Elixir
• Learn how to build distributed apps
• Link all servers using distributed features
• Try to do mesh linking between ircds

Current status: trying to implement the basis of IRC protocol, then i'll concentrate on linking the ircds together.

Usage

mix deps.get && mix deps.compile

Run with a console

iex -S mix run

Useful things to do in the console

# Remove a nickname from the server
:gen_server.cast({:global,:server}, { :remove_nick, "nick" })
# Print current server state (also /quote debug printstate)
:gen_server.call({:global,server}, { :printstate })
# Recompile & Reload code
r(ModuleName) # e.g.: r(IRCd.User)

Inspirations & stuff

Code:

• Serveur IRC en Erlang,

• irc.erl from above server, credited to Samuel Tardieu,

• another irc.erl,

• ...

• https://github.com/gmcabrita/elixirbot/blob/master/lib/irc.ex

• https://github.com/Twinside/Eis/blob/master/src/irc.erl

Readings that saved me:

• http://learnyousomeerlang.com/
• http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/gen_server_concepts.html
• ...

IRC protocol:

• https://www.alien.net.au/irc/
• http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812