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 # ExIrc
 
 ExIrc is a IRC client library for Elixir projects. It aims to have a clear, well
 documented API, with the minimal amount of code necessary to allow you to connect and
 communicate with IRC servers effectively. It aims to implement the full RFC2812 protocol,
 and relevant parts of RFC1459.
 
 ## Why?
 
 I had need of this in another project of mine, and found that there were no good libraries available, 
 documentation was always missing, it wasn't clear how to use, and in general were not easy to work
 with.
 
 ## Status
 
 Alpha. The API is complete and everything is implemented, but little testing has been done (I've tested the API against my own local IRC server, but nothing robust enough to call this production ready). Any bugs you find, please report them in the issue tracker and I'll address them as soon as possible. If you have any questions, or if the documentation seems incomplete, let me know and I'll fill it in.
 
 ## Getting Started
 
-Add ExIrc as a dependency to your project in mix.exs:
+Add ExIrc as a dependency to your project in mix.exs, and add it as an application:
 
 ```elixir
   defp deps do
     [{:exirc, github: "bitwalker/exirc"}]
   end
+
+  defp application do
+    [applications: [:exirc],
+     ...]
+  end
 ```
 
 Then fetch it using `mix deps.get`.
 
 To use ExIrc, you need to start a new client process, and add event handlers. An example event handler module
 is located in `lib/exirc/example_handler.ex`. A simple module is defined below as an example of how you might
 use ExIrc in practice. ExampleHandler here is the one that comes bundled with ExIrc.
 
 ```elixir
 defmodule ExampleSupervisor do
     defrecord State, 
         host: "chat.freenode.net",
         port: 6667,
         pass: "",
         nick: "bitwalker",
         user: "bitwalker",
         name: "Paul Schoenfelder",
         client: nil,
         handlers: []
 
     def start_link(_) do
         :gen_server.start_link(__MODULE__, [State.new()])
     end
 
-    def init([state]) do
-        # Start the client and handler processes
-        {:ok, client}  = ExIrc.Client.start!()
+    def init(state) do
+        # Start the client and handler processes, the ExIrc supervisor is automatically started when your app runs
+        {:ok, client}  = ExIrc.start_client!()
         {:ok, handler} = ExampleHandler.start_link(nil)
 
         # Register the event handler with ExIrc
         ExIrc.Client.add_handler handler
 
         # Connect and logon to a server, join a channel and send a simple message
         ExIrc.Client.connect!   client, state.host, state.port
         ExIrc.Client.logon      client, state.pass, state.nick, state.user, state.name
         ExIrc.Client.join       client, "#elixir-lang"
         ExIrc.Client.msg        client, :privmsg, "#elixir-lang", "Hello world!"
 
         {:ok, state.client(client).handlers([handler])}
     end
 
     def terminate(_, state) do
         # Quit the channel and close the underlying client connection when the process is terminating
         ExIrc.Client.quit state.client, "Goodbye, cruel world."
         ExIrc.Client.stop! state.client
         :ok
     end
 end
 ```