Itp gem helps you to transfer files from system to system. You can share a file with your friend very easily. It uses ipfs-ruby gem for setting up ipfs client and contacting ipfs server.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'itp'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install itp
This gem supports only CLI.
To share a file with your friend, you have to add it to ipfs daemon server. To do that, there should be an ipfs daemon server running. By default, ipfs daemon server runs on the port 5001. This gem expects an ipfs daemon server to be running on the port 5001.
To run ipfs daemon server, you have to do the following.
$ ipfs daemon
This starts an ipfs daemon server on port 5001.
Now, an ipfs daemon server is running on port 5001 and is ready to accept file sharings. Your job is pretty easy now. You can share any file with your friend. To share a file, run the following command from your console.
$ ruby -Ilib ./bin/itp share filename
Above command generates a hash which you should be sending it to your friend. This internally adds your file to ipfs daemon server.
Now, the time has come for your friend to receive that file using the hash generated. To receive the file, run the following command from your console.
$ ruby -Ilib ./bin/itp receive hashcode
This creates a file with name received.txt in your current directory.
This way, files are shared among systems.
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also 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, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/VenkataSubhash96/itp. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.