Ruby wrapper for the Mt. Gox Trade API

Mt. Gox allows you to trade US Dollars (USD) for Bitcoins (BTC) or Bitcoins for US Dollars.

Installation

gem install mtgox

Documentation

http://rdoc.info/gems/mtgox

If you find this library useful, please consider sending a donation to the author, which you can do using the following script:

require 'rubygems'
require 'mtgox'

# Certain methods require authentication
MtGox.configure do |config|
  config.name = YOUR_MTGOX_USERNAME
  config.pass = YOUR_MTGOX_PASSWORD
end

MtGox.send 1.0, "1KxSo9bGBfPVFEtWNLpnUK1bfLNNT4q31L"

Continuous Integration

Build Status

Usage Examples

require 'rubygems'
require 'mtgox'

# Fetch the latest price for 1 BTC in USD
puts MtGox.ticker.last

# Fetch open asks
puts MtGox.asks

# Fetch open bids
puts MtGox.bids

# Fetch the last 48 hours worth of trades (takes a minute)
puts MtGox.trades

# Certain methods require authentication
MtGox.configure do |config| [TODO]
  config.name = YOUR_MTGOX_USERNAME
  config.pass = YOUR_MTGOX_PASSWORD
end

# Get your current balance
puts MtGox.balance [TODO]

# Place an order to buy 1 BTC for 20 USD (returns a list of your open orders)
puts MtGox.buy 1.0, 20.0 [TODO]

# Place an order to sell 1 BTC for 20 USD (returns a list of your open orders)
puts MtGox.sell 1.0, 20.0 [TODO]

# Cancel order #1234567890
puts MtGox.cancel 1234567890 [TODO]

# Send 1 BTC to the author of this gem
puts MtGox.send 1.0, "1KxSo9bGBfPVFEtWNLpnUK1bfLNNT4q31L" [TODO]

Contributing

In the spirit of free software, everyone is encouraged to help improve this project.

Here are some ways you can contribute:

  • by using alpha, beta, and prerelease versions
  • by reporting bugs
  • by suggesting new features
  • by writing or editing documentation
  • by writing specifications
  • by writing code (no patch is too small: fix typos, add comments, clean up inconsistent whitespace)
  • by refactoring code
  • by closing issues
  • by reviewing patches
  • by financially (please send bitcoin donations to 1KxSo9bGBfPVFEtWNLpnUK1bfLNNT4q31L)

Submitting an Issue

We use the GitHub issue tracker to track bugs and features. Before submitting a bug report or feature request, check to make sure it hasn't already been submitted. You can indicate support for an existing issuse by voting it up. When submitting a bug report, please include a Gist that includes a stack trace and any details that may be necessary to reproduce the bug, including your gem version, Ruby version, and operating system. Ideally, a bug report should include a pull request with failing specs.

Submitting a Pull Request

  1. Fork the project.
  2. Create a topic branch.
  3. Implement your feature or bug fix.
  4. Add documentation for your feature or bug fix.
  5. Run bundle exec rake doc:yard. If your changes are not 100% documented, go back to step 4.
  6. Add specs for your feature or bug fix.
  7. Run bundle exec rake spec. If your changes are not 100% covered, go back to step 6.
  8. Commit and push your changes.
  9. Submit a pull request. Please do not include changes to the gemspec, version, or history file. (If you want to create your own version for some reason, please do so in a separate commit.)

Copyright (c) 2011 Erik Michaels-Ober. See LICENSE for details.