20:56 <Gizmokid2005> this feels like a dumb question, but what to use to get the bot's current nick in an "on :message" method?

20:56 <dominikh> bot.nick

20:56 <Gizmokid2005> ie = on :message, /hello #{Bot.nick}/i do |m|

20:57 <Gizmokid2005> will that still work there dominikh?

20:57 <Gizmokid2005> I thought I tried that and got an error..

20:57 <dominikh> if your variable is called bot, sure.

21:00 <Gizmokid2005> Hmm, it is. Maybe I had a dumb.

21:01 <Gizmokid2005> Hmmm, bot is defined as follows: bot = Cinch::Bot.new do

21:01 <Gizmokid2005> and the message line: on :message, /hello #{bot.nick}/i do |m|

21:01 <Gizmokid2005> but it gives me undefined method 'nick' for nil:NilClass when I do it on that line...

21:01 <dominikh> well *that* won't work.

21:02 <dominikh> the handler is defined before bot exists, or before bot has connected anywhere or has gotten a name

21:03 <Gizmokid2005> That's what I was thinking but my thinker is a bit slow today...

21:04 <Gizmokid2005> is there a way to do what I'm looking to accomplish? or should I regex it and just handle it within the message block to check if it matches the bot's nick?

21:05 <dominikh> you could use a lambda for the pattern. on :message, lambda { |m| /hello #{m.bot.nick}/i } do |m|

21:05 <dominikh> should work, anyway

21:08 <Gizmokid2005> Hm, lemme try that dominikh

21:12 <Gizmokid2005> Odd. It seems to be just not-firing at his point.

21:12 <Gizmokid2005> Though I'm not convinced I did it correctly either.

21:17 <dominikh> hm, doesn't seem to work.

21:18 <dominikh> oh.

21:19 <dominikh> looks like only the plugin API supports lambdas, not the "on" DSL

21:25 <dominikh> sorry, but it's time for bed here. look at the plugin examples; there should be one for lambdas, too. night

22:15 <Gizmokid2005> thanks dominikh. Will do.