How to connect to Campfire using your favorite IRC client
Published 2013-10-12, 17:08
The team of a new project uses Campfire for group chat. Campfire is 37signal’s web based chat solution from back when they launched a new product every few months.
I don’t like chatting in a browser. And I’m a Windows guy and all the native Campfire clients for Windows work, but are not very pretty. You could probably even say they are a bit ugly. That’s why I went on a hunt to get Campfire into a Jabber or IRC client.
I’m in IRC all the time on freenode for several development channels, so I was really happy to find a small script that builds a brigdge between the Campfire API and IRC: https://github.com/zerowidth/camper_van
Here is a small ‘how to’ on how to get it to work on Windows:
- Download Ruby Installer: http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads (I would suggest using the 1.9.3 version.)
- Use these options for the installation:
- Download the matching Development Kit from the same site.
The installer is a bit crappy, make sure to extract to a new folder on your HD (e.g. “C:/Ruby Devkit”).
Run the following commands in a command prompt in this directory:
ruby dk.rb init
ruby dk.rb install - Now you can install the camper_van Ruby gem:
gem install camper_van(Will take a while) - Run camper_van to start the Campfire-IRC-bridge
Now you can connect to 127.0.0.1 on port 6667 using “##campfire_subdomain##:##your_api_key##” (You can find both on your member site of the Campfire chat room) in your favorite IRC client. After connecting, /join #channelname to join your channel and you’re done.
camper_van translates all nicknames from “Foo Bar” to “foo_bar” so you can use it to reply to people in chat and your client can inform you if you were mentioned. Same for images or tweets, should all work.
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