02:49 <CM-Punk> Hey, so once I've started a timer in a method, how do I stop it?

02:51 <leftylink> CM-Punk: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/cinch/Cinch/Timer it has a #stop

02:53 <CM-Punk> I just came from that page

02:53 <CM-Punk> So, I came here to ask

02:54 <CM-Punk> Ohhhh wait a minute

02:54 <CM-Punk> Okay

02:54 <CM-Punk> So I'd stop it by like

02:54 <CM-Punk> Timer(*args).stop

02:54 <CM-Punk> Right?

02:54 <CM-Punk> But how do I get it to tell which timer to stop!?

02:55 <leftylink> CM-Punk: #stop stops the specific Timer object it's called on.

02:55 <leftylink> that's how it knows what timer to stop

02:55 <leftylink> so you just need to know what Timer object to call #stop on

02:57 <CM-Punk> You're talking over my head...I need a relevant example...

02:57 <CM-Punk> I learn everything by example and then I can run with it...

02:57 <CM-Punk> Like I did with the entirety of my bot

02:58 <CM-Punk> http://pastie.org/private/6sguihek9xw6ho97zqpsww leftylink line 105 is where I create the timer

02:59 <leftylink> CM-Punk: but wait, you already gave yourself an example... like above you said < CM-Punk> Timer(*args).stop

02:59 <leftylink> so if you had said Timer(5).stop, you would create a Timer of 5 seconds, and then you immediately stopped the timer you just created

03:00 <CM-Punk> I don't want to immediately stop it...

03:00 <leftylink> then stop it later

03:00 <CM-Punk> Okay, so let's say I....created that timer....

03:01 <CM-Punk> Then another action happens that I want to trigger a stop of the action

03:01 <CM-Punk> Would I just create another method with...

03:01 <CM-Punk> Timer(3600, shots: 1).stop

03:02 <CM-Punk> And it would STOP the time because the arguments match?

03:02 <CM-Punk> No...that doesn't make sense...

03:02 <CM-Punk> That would just create a timer and stop it

03:02 <CM-Punk> I don't know.

03:03 <leftylink> right, if you did `Timer(3600, shots: 1)` that creates a brand new timer and stops it immediately. instead, call stop on the timer you created previously

03:04 <leftylink> a bit misleading, redoing

03:04 <leftylink> right, if you did `Timer(3600, shots: 1).stop` that creates a brand new timer and stops it immediately. instead, call stop on the timer you created previously

03:04 <CM-Punk> Right, how do I do that?

03:05 <CM-Punk> I've never called an active object like that...

03:06 <leftylink> hmm... the same way you would call any method on any other object. a period, and then "stop"

03:06 <CM-Punk> timeoutHandler.Timer.stop?

03:08 <CM-Punk> Wait leftylink

03:08 <CM-Punk> If...

03:08 <CM-Punk> If I don't specify arguments...

03:08 <CM-Punk> Would Timer.stop not create a new timer, but call on an active timer?

03:09 <CM-Punk> Call me an idiot, but I don't understand.

03:16 <leftylink> hmm, looking at your code, `timeoutHandler.Timer` wouldn't work

03:16 <leftylink> `timeoutHandler` returns a Timer object, and Timer objects... probably don't have a Timer method

03:17 <leftylink> or, well, I don't know if they do, but it's certainly not what I would use, so I would be too scare to give advice there

03:23 <CM-Punk> Do you have ANY suggestions, leftylink? Because like...when someone logs out, I don't want the timer firing.

03:40 <leftylink> indeed. well it looks like on line 91, you create a timer for the user who just logged in. so somewhere around line 113 or so (when the user uses !logout command) you would want to call #stop on the timer for the user who used that command

03:41 <leftylink> "the timer for the user who used that command" being the same timer that was created on line 91

03:45 <CM-Punk> Right

03:46 <CM-Punk> So how do I call that timer to stop it?

04:11 <leftylink> hmm, I think the answer to that depends a little bit on personal preference. like, I personally would use a hash, but there could be other ways. if you think that would work for you cool, but I'd definitely not be offended if you did it any other way

04:32 <CM-Punk> leftylink, I don't know how to do it with a hash

04:47 <CM-Punk> I don

04:47 <CM-Punk> I don't know how to do it at all, that is what I am asking you to tell me.

05:07 <leftylink> wait, that doesn't make sense to me. you did it many times in the code you showed me. how can you avhe done it if you don't know how? for example, on line 17

05:07 <leftylink> er maybe 18 is a better example

06:45 <CM-Punk> I still don't know how to stop the timer.