IRC bot integration

Hello,

I am looking for a solution to get the latest posts to an irc channel, but don't know where to start. My bot is based on the Ruby cinch framework and I already have developed RSS readers and Twitter interfaces for it. I can run a separate forum bot though, so a Ruby compatible solution is not mandatory.

The easiest solution I could think of would be just reading the database state, and when written to, it would read the newest post. But this feels pretty clunky.

In short, I would like to know how to pass notifications and posts to external applications. Passing notifications on 'likes' and other events would be a plus.

Any tips from the more knowledgeable developers on how to design this?

Thank you for the tips, I have already found some good examples from that post_save keyword you gave me.

I have done a quick pseudo-draft:

from django.db.models.signals import post_save
from misago.threads.models.post import Post

def send(msg):
    # do stuff with msg

def irc(sender, post):
    send('%s posted: %s' % (user, post))

post_save.connect(irc, sender=Post)

Does this look correct?
What model do I have to use if I want to get the author and the post as a string? I'll worry about proper post sanitation later.