Ruby gem for building Telegram Bot with optional Rails integration
Tools for developing Telegram bots. Best used with Rails, but can be used in a standalone app. Supposed to be used in webhook mode in production, and poller mode in development, but you can use poller in production if you want.
...It has support for IRC (v3.1) with planned support for XMPP.
It can be easily extended by means of its plugin API, and offers a host of features. It is known to function on any OS on which Ruby 1.9 functions (such as Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, Microsoft Windows, etc.).