16:56 <ColdBlooder> Hi

17:48 <ColdBlooder> Is there a way to make the bot choose a random person in the room?

17:53 <leftylink> ColdBlooder: yup, http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/cinch/Cinch/Channel#users-instance_method will get you users in the channel, then you could randomly select one of those

17:59 <ColdBlooder> How do i randomly select one. Thats my main issue...

18:00 <eebs> ColdBlooder: You could call .to_a.sample on the users hash

18:03 <ColdBlooder> Cool i'll give it a try

18:39 <ColdBlooder> How do i get the username out of this? [#<User nick="ColdBlooder">, ["o"]]

18:39 <ColdBlooder> Split on the quotation mark and cut the leftover?

18:40 <dRbiG> hello. quick question: is it possible to use a prefix only for channel messages?

18:43 <eebs> ColdBlooder: that's the output of User.inspect (https://github.com/cinchrb/cinch/blob/master/lib/cinch/user.rb#L339) All you have to do is call user.nick

18:45 <leftylink> dRbiG: aw man... yeah that seems tough. the only way I figured out how to do it is to do https://gist.github.com/an1itdp01y/8791843

18:45 <leftylink> and use xmatch instead of match

18:46 <leftylink> kinda bad but the best I could do

18:46 <dRbiG> aye, thanks for sharing your approach

18:49 <leftylink> as far as I can tell from reading https://github.com/cinchrb/cinch/blob/master/lib/cinch/plugin.rb#L196 and https://github.com/cinchrb/cinch/blob/master/lib/cinch/pattern.rb I didn't find a better way, so that might have to be o_o

18:54 <ColdBlooder> So using "randomuser = Channel($channel).users.to_a.sample" gives me a randomly chosen username but in an array. How do i call User.nick after that? I don't know why i don't understand that right now...

18:57 <eebs> ColdBlooder: as leftylink pointed out (http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/cinch/Cinch/Channel#users-instance_method) returns a hash, where the keys are the Users and the values are an array of modes

18:57 <eebs> I may have misspoken before

18:58 <eebs> I think you want to call #users.keys.sample.nick

18:58 <eebs> with the appropriate error handling

19:02 <ColdBlooder> Ahh now it works

19:02 <ColdBlooder> thx!

19:02 <ColdBlooder> And now i need to get to work... Bye!

19:03 <eebs> ColdBlooder: cheers, glad it works

19:04 <leftylink> ah, right, becuase Hash#to_a returns an array of [key, value] pairs. which explains the above behavior

19:06 <eebs> Yeah. I also misread it, and thought #users returned a hash where the values were an array of User => [modes].

19:06 <eebs> so I may have caused some confusion :P