Railsbot
This is the channel bot ("helpa") for #rubyonrails. It is used so people don't have to type things over and over again.
Commands are listed (in SQL form) in tips.sql.
You can run the bot yourself with ruby bot.rb irc.freenode.net.
Heroku
Configure your bot in config/summer.yml
First set the required config vars
heroku config:set RAILS_BOT_IRC_SERVER=irc.freenode.net
heroku config:set RAILS_BOT_IRC_PORT=6667
next run required database migrations
heroku run ruby migration.rb
next configure heroku to use a bot worker
heroku ps:scale bot=1
Database settings
The database settings in summer.yml will automatically be overwritten by heroku's DATABASE_URL environment variable so that its an effortless setup to use heroku postgres.