Parsing IRC messages in Ruby

gistfile1.rb

result = {}

parts = message.split(' ')
result[:prefix]  = parts.shift.gsub(/^:/, "") if parts[0] =~ /^:/
result[:command] = parts.shift
result[:params]  = parts.take_while { |x| x[0] != ":" }

if result[:params].size < parts.size
  full_string = parts.slice(result[:params].size..-1).join(" ")
  full_string.gsub!(/^:/, "")
  result[:params] << full_string
end