Five Bells Ledger

A reference implementation of the Five Bells Ledger API

Usage

You can see the ledger in action as part of the five-bells-demo!

To run the ledger as a standalone server:

Step 1: Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/interledgerjs/five-bells-ledger.git
cd five-bells-ledger

Step 2: Install dependencies

npm install

Step 3: Run it!

To run it using an in-memory database (the simplest option), run:

LEDGER_ADMIN_PASS=mypassword LEDGER_DB_URI=sqlite://:memory: npm start

Or run:

npm start

See "Environment Variables" in the generated documentation for config options.

Building Docs

After installation:

npm run docs

Open apidocs-out/index.html in a web browser to see the generated API documentation.

Running with Docker (Alternative Method)

This project can be run in a Docker container.

You need a local database instance listening on port 8080. Here is how to set that up:

docker run --name mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password -p 3306:3306 -d mysql
export LEDGER_DB_URI=mysql://root:password@localhost/fivebells
npm run migrate

Then run the following (with the same environment variables) as described above:

docker run -it --rm --net=host -e LEDGER_PORT=1337 -e LEDGER_DB_URI=$LEDGER_DB_URI interledger/five-bells-ledger

Breaking down that command:

• -it Run Five Bells Ledger in an interactive terminal.
• --rm Delete container when it's done running.
• --net=host Don't isolate container into its own virtual network. This allows Five Bells Ledger to see the database that we set up above.
• -e LEDGER_PORT=1337 Set the ledger's port to 1337. This is just an example for how to set a config option.

Running tests

To run tests using an in-memory database, run:

npm test

If you wish to specify the database against which the tests are run, use the LEDGER_UNIT_DB_URI environment variable.

LEDGER_UNIT_DB_URI=postgres://root:password@localhost:5432/ledger_test_db npm test

For example, to run against a Postgres instance in Docker, first start the database server:

docker run -it --rm --name fbl-pg-test postgres

Then, in another terminal, run the tests:

LEDGER_UNIT_DB_URI=postgres://postgres@`docker inspect --format '{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' fbl-pg-test`/postgres npm test