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module Chatterbot
#
# a bunch of helper routines for bots
module Helpers
#
# Set the username of the bot. This is used when generating
# config/skeleton file during registration
#
def botname=(b)
@botname = b
end
#
# The name of the currently running bot
def botname
if !@botname.nil?
@botname
elsif self.class < Bot
self.class.to_s.downcase
else
File.basename($0,".rb")
end
end
#
# Pull the username from a tweet hash -- this is different depending on
# if we're doing a search, or parsing through replies/mentions.
def from_user(s)
case s
when Twitter::Tweet
s.user.screen_name
when Twitter::User
s.name
when String
s
end
end
#
# Take the incoming tweet/user name, and turn it into something suitable for replying
# to a user. Basically, get their handle and add a '@' to it.
def tweet_user(tweet)
base = from_user(tweet)
base =~ /^@/ ? base : "@#{base}"
end
#
# do some simple variable substitution. for now, it only handles
# replacing #USER# with the screen of the incoming tweet, but it
# could do more if needed
#
def replace_variables(txt, original = nil)
if ! original.nil? && txt.include?("#USER#")
username = tweet_user(original)
txt.gsub("#USER#", username)
else
txt
end
end
#
# find the user of the current tweet/object we are dealing with
#
def current_user
return nil if @current_tweet.nil?
return @current_tweet.sender if @current_tweet.respond_to?(:sender)
return @current_tweet.user
end
end
end
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