Ruby methods to publish content into some chat systems. No API clients or gems required, just curl.

chat_publisher.rb

# Publish messages to Hipchat https://www.hipchat.com
def publish_to_hipchat(room_id, msg, from, format, color, auth_token)
  `curl -X POST -d "room_id=#{room_id}&message=#{msg}&from=#{from}&message_format=#{format}&color=#{color}" \
  "https://api.hipchat.com/v1/rooms/message?auth_token=#{auth_token}"`
end

# Publish messages to Talker http://talkerapp.com
def publish_to_talker(room_id, msg, auth_token)
  `curl -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-Talker-Token: "#{auth_token}"' \
  -d '{"message":"#{msg}"}' \
  "https://talkerapp.com/rooms/#{room_id}/messages.json"`
end