gistfile1.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require "rubygems"
require "libnotify"
require "daemons"

class IrssiNotifier
  def initialize(host, tail_script, opts = {})
    @host    = host
    @script  = tail_script
    @options = opts
  end

  def run
    puts "Launched @ #{Time.now}"
    daemonize if @options[:daemonize]

    at_exit { exit_hook }
    tail
  end

  private

  def notify(line)
    puts "notify: #{line}"
    show "hilight", line
  end

  def tail
    IO.popen("ssh #{@host} '#{@script}'") do |io|
      io.each { |line| notify line }
    end
  end

  def exit_hook
    show "#{self.class} exiting", "pid: #{Process.pid}"
  rescue => e
    $stderr.puts e
  end

  def show(summary, body, timeout = 10)
    Libnotify.show :summary => summary, :body => body, :timeout => timeout
  end

  def daemonize
    Daemons.daemonize
  end

end

if __FILE__ == $0
  IrssiNotifier.new(
    "linode",
    '~/.irssi/scripts/notify-tail.sh',
    :daemonize => ARGV.include?("-d")
  ).run
end

__END__
#!/bin/sh

#
# notify-tail.sh
#


log=~/.irssi/fnotify

rm $log/
touch $log
tail -F $log