Rubic is an IRC client written in Ruby that uses the popular ncurses-based irssi/ircII-style interface. Rubic stands for Ruby IRC Client.
As of now, this project is in a purely alpha/developmental stage. It is not meant for use, nor critique, nor suggestion. It comes with no support nor guarantee. Use at your own risk.
For those of you who are going to ignore the above suggestion, here is some information you might want to be aware of:
This application takes advantage of features from the ncurses library. In order to run, it reqires the libncurses-ruby package. You should find the version appropriate for your system.
Also heavily relied upon is Term::Visual. Because is it still in alpha status, it has simply been included with the application as a set of included files.
Either check out the repository [if available on your system]:
deb http://www.thedarkmere.net/404-not-setup-yet edgy main deb-src http://www.thedarkmere.net/404-not-setup-yet edgy main
you can then install or later update to a newer versions using:
$ apt-get install rubic
Alternatively, download the latest version as a tarball: rubic.tar.gz