Bitcoiner

Automate your Bitcoin transactions with this Ruby interface to the bitcoind JSON-RPC API. This is a fork of bitcoind Ruby gem.

Installation

Install it from rubygems:

gem install bitcoiner

Or add to a Gemfile:

gem 'bitcoiner'
# gem 'bitcoiner', github: 'NARKOZ/bitcoiner'

Usage

Connecting

Before connecting, you will need to configure a username and password for bitcoind, and start bitcoind. Once that's done:

client = Bitcoiner.new 'username', 'password' # REPLACE WITH YOUR bitcoin.conf rpcuser/rpcpassword
# => #<Bitcoiner::Client "http://username:[email protected]:8332" >

Account Balances

You can get the balance of all addresses controlled by the client:

client.balance
# => 12.34

You can also get a hash of all accounts the client controls:

client.accounts
# => {"Your Address"=>#<Bitcoiner::Account "Your Address" >, "eve-online ransoms"=>#<Bitcoiner::Account "eve-online ransoms" >}

And of course each account has its own balance too:

ransom = client.accounts['eve-online ransoms']
# => #<Bitcoiner::Account "eve-online ransoms" >

ransom.balance
# => 2.19

Transactions

You can get all the transactions in an account:

ransom.transactions
# => [#<Bitcoiner::Transaction abadbabe123deadbeef 2.19 to eve-online ransoms at 2011-02-19 16:21:09 -0500>]

You can send money from an account too:

ransom.send_to 'destinationaddress', 2
# => #<Bitcoiner::Account deadbeef888abadbeef UNCONFIRMED>

Making Accounts

Creating an account with an associated address is done through the accounts interface:

tiny_wings = client.accounts.new 'tiny wings ransoms'
# => #<Bitcoiner::Account "tiny wings ransoms" >

tiny_wings.address
# => "1KV5khnHbbHF2nNQkk7Pe5nPndEj43U27r"

Logging

You may log requests (responses aren't logged) by setting a logger:

logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
client = Bitcoiner::Client.new('username', 'password', 'http://a.c', {
  logger: logger,
})

License

Released under the MIT license. See LICENSE.txt for details.