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qbot is the bot used by the unofficial Arch Linux community on Discord. Originally its only function was to manage support channels, but it has evolved to do much more.

Modules:

• admin lets server owners administer and configure the bot.
• arch contains commands for searching the Arch wiki, repositories, and AUR.
• colors generates, manages, and assigns color roles.
• figlet converts text to ASCII art.
• help provides a help command that displays information about commands.
• queries helps manage support channels using a database of support questions.
• snippets lets users invoke configurable text snippets.
• util provides simple utility commands.
• xkcd allows searching and posting XKCD comics.

Invite qbot to your own server

Click this link to invite our hosted instance of qbot to your own server.

Running your own instance of qbot

Preferred method

This repository is a Nix flake.

On NixOS, you can run your own instance of the bot by importing github:arch-community/qbot, adding the nixosModule output and the overlay to your configuration, and configuring the option services.qbot as defined in module.nix.

Setting up your own environment

With Nix

Clone this Git repository and enter its directory.

Run nix-build ./default.nix. The resulting executable is at result/bin/qbot.

Otherwise

Install Ruby, at least version 3.1 (higher versions untested). Install bundler.

Clone this Git repository. Enter the directory. Run bundle install to set up the environment.

To start the bot, run bundle exec qbot.

Run the bot

qbot is configured in a YAML file at config/global.yml. Copy the example config to config/global.yml and add the correct settings for your instance.

Start the bot.

qbot uses an SQLite database to store per-server configuration and user data. To initialize the database, let qbot fully start up, then enter irb into the bot CLI to enter the irb console. In this mode, run Database.define_schema. Press Ctrl+D to exit and type rs to restart the bot.

Administration

Bot CLI:

• rs or restart restarts the bot.
• rc or reload-config reloads the config.
• lm or load-module loads or reloads a module.
• irb opens a REPL in the context of the bot.
• quit or stop stops the bot.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.