Bot can't write messages even though the account isn't banned

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Currently, the method that sends the message looks similar to this (there is some more stuff but this is the interesting part):

def writeToChat(message)
	# some more code
	writeToSystem decode("PRIVMSG ##{@channel} :#{message}")
	# some more code
end

@channel is just a string containing the channel name.

The writeToSystem method just sends the given string as-is to the server. So it should work if I use the correct line ending?

So an example string would look something like this: PRIVMSG #stunthacks :This is a test.