A campfire bot that speaks the posts aloud. A unique voice is given to each user based on their name.

saybot.rb

require 'tinder'
require 'time'

campfire = Tinder::Campfire.new 'subdomain', :token => 'herp'

VOICES = [
  'Agnes',
  'Albert',
  'Alex',
  'Bad News',
  'Bahh',
  'Bells',
  'Boing',
  'Bruce',
  'Bubbles',
  'Cellos',
  'Deranged',
  'Fred',
  'Good News',
  'Hysterical',
  'Junior',
  'Kathy',
  'Pipe Organ',
  'Princess',
  'Ralph',
  'Trinoids',
  'Vicki',
  'Victoria',
  'Whisper',
  'Zarvox',
]

loop do
  begin
    campfire.find_room_by_id('440273').listen do |message|
      if message[:user]
        unique_voice_id = message[:user][:name].each_byte.reduce(0){|t,n| t+n} % VOICES.length
        voice = VOICES[unique_voice_id]
        message = "#{message[:body].to_s.gsub(/[^\w| ]*/, '').gsub(/(\[|\().*?(\]|\))|http.*( |$)/, '')}"
        spawn "say", "-v#{voice}", message
      end
    end
  rescue => e
    p e
  end
end