Over the course of a few hours, I decided to scratch an itch I had and absentee_camper was born. It’s a Ruby library that will monitor a Campfire room for @mentioned users and notify them via email if they aren’t in the room at the time the message is sent. The email contains the message in which the user was mentioned.

There are no specs at the moment (bad Rubyist!) due to me trying to crank it out as quickly as possible so the devs on our project could try it out, so I will be adding some in the very near future. But, our team has been testing it for a few weeks now and it seems to be working great.