BitcoinRpc

Tiny JSON-RPC client for Bitcoin-Core, forwards calls via method_missing. Uses OJ and BigDecimal to accurately deserialize amounts. Heavily based on some throwaway snippets found around the web.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'bitcoin_rpc'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install bitcoin_rpc

Usage

>>> client = BitcoinRpc::Client.new('http://user:pass@bitcoin-rpc-host:18332')
=> #<BitcoinRpc::Client:0x007fae4a94c780 @uri=#<URI::HTTP http://user:pass@bitcoin-rpc-host:18332>>
>>> client.getinfo
=> {
     "version" => 100000,
     "protocolversion" => 70002,
     "walletversion" => 60000,
     "balance" => 1.27007770,
     "blocks" => 315281,
     "timeoffset" => 0,
     "connections" => 9,
     "proxy" => "",
     "difficulty" => 1.00000000,
     "testnet" => true,
     "keypoololdest" => 1418924649,
     "keypoolsize" => 101,
     "paytxfee" => 0.00000000,
     "relayfee" => 0.00001000,
     "errors" => ""
   }

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/bitcoin_rpc/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request