14:44 <noraj> Hello guys

14:44 <noraj> I'm coding a IRC bot with cinch

14:45 <noraj> and I want to use some timers for user response

14:46 <noraj> example: I send a question to a user and I want to let him only 2 seconds to answer after that I will display it it's refused

14:46 <noraj> how can I do that?

14:47 <dominikh> some code involving http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/cinch/Cinch/Helpers#Timer-instance_method

15:21 <noraj> how can you pass options? I tried something like Timer(3, shots=1)

15:21 <dominikh> Timer accepts a block, which is a closure, so just have the closure close over the right variables

15:27 <noraj> I'm not sure to understand, because Timer(3) { command } will repeat the command every 3 sec because of default shots to Float::INFINITY that I want to change to 1, to only execute it 1 time after 3 seconds

15:29 <dominikh> Oh, that. see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16576477/how-do-methods-use-hash-arguments-in-ruby

15:30 <noraj> Thanks that was exacltly that what I didn't understand

15:36 <noraj> I want to do something like that to allow the user to answer only during 3 first seconds after he receive the question https://ghostbin.com/paste/gk7ka

15:45 <noraj> I can't put on :private inside a on :private, but if I put two on :private at the same level I can't keep the context: user that previously contacted the bot, time of contact, answer because question/answer are random, etc...

16:39 <noraj> So any adia about how to do https://ghostbin.com/paste/gk7ka ?

18:32 <leftylink> noraj: so it becomes clear that the `on :private, /^rep (.*)!/` would have to go on the same level as the other one. So now in the handler for `/^cmd!/` you will need to store in some variable to remember that that user has a question pending. the handler for `rep` has to check that variable to see whether that user has a question pending

18:32 <leftylink> the timer can clear the variable to show that the user ran out of time.

19:36 <noraj> leftylink

19:36 <noraj> leftylink : ok; I'll try that but will ↨`rep`be able to see a variable that is in scope of `cmd`? I'll need a golbal variable so?

20:29 <leftylink> noraj: right. a local variable in a block is local to that block only. it is true that a global would work. I will also say that in my code I used an instance variable since I use plugins. Sorry, I do not know whether instance vars work in `on :private`

20:32 <noraj> Can u show me your code? May be it is better for me to use instance

23:02 <noraj> thx it works well :)