How to Set up the Faucet

In order to allow people who do not have funds yet to enter the system, we need to setup a faucet.

Tapin

If you are interested Python-based faucet, check out Tapin . Tapin is a python-based faucet for Graphene-based blockchains (e.g. BitShares).

Here, we will also use mina as our deployment tool for a production installation.

1. Installation of Dependencies

Install every other dependency that is needed and not yet installed:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev
# put a master password for mysql

Also install a decently recent version of Ruby:

cd
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git .rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL

git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL

git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv-gem-rehash.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/rbenv-gem-rehash

sudo rbenv install 2.2.3
sudo rbenv global 2.2.3
sudo gem install bundle

2. Get the Source

git clone https://github.com/cryptonomex/faucet
cd faucet
sudo bundle   # ignore warnings

3. Configuration

  • 1 ) the faucet itself,

  • 2 ) rails API secrets,

  • 3 ) database access,

  • 4 ) and the deployment tool, mina.

1) Faucet

All required settings are in config/faucet.yml which has an example file:

cp config/faucet-example.yml config/faucet.yml
vim config/faucet.yml

2) Rails API

Rails needs to know a secret for their internals, we can get a new one with rake secret. Put it into the corresponding lines in the config file.:

cp config/secrets-example.yml config/secrets.yml
rake secret
vim config/secrets.yml

3a) Database Access

The default configuration for the database access expects an empty root password for MySQL. Hence, if you have set a different password, you need to provide it here.:

vim config/database.yml

We generate our databases with:

rake db:create; rake db:migrate; rake db:seed
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake db:create db:schema:load

3b) Database Settings

We also need to add an entry to the database so that page loads and referrals work properly:

1. Go to `/www/current`
2. execute: `rails db`, a mysql console will open
3.  Execute: `insert into widgets set allowed_domains='testnet.bitshares.eu'`; (replace the domain with your domain)

4) Mina deployment

Mina is used to deploy the faucet properly and move all the required files over to the production machine (may be the same machine).:

cp config/deploy-example.yml config/deploy.yml
vim config/deploy.yml

Make sure to add your ssh-pub key to your authorized file so that mina can deploy to the corrseponding machine.

Create the public directly that is served and copy/link the configuration file to the deployment’s shared files.

sudo mkdir /www
sudo chown -R gph:gph /www

mina setup
ln -s $HOME/faucet/config/faucet.yml /www/shared/config/
ln -s $HOME/faucet/config/secrets.yml /www/shared/config/
ln -s $HOME/faucet/config/database.yml /www/shared/config/

Deploy mina and the wallet with:

ln -s $HOME/graphene-ui/web/dist $HOME/faucet/public/wallet
mina deploy
mina wallet