bouncer

A dev tool to streamline Urbit app development. bouncer connects to a running ship (e.g, a fake ship or locally running moon) and runs a customizable script to merge, mount, rsync, commit, and install (a common workflow for app development).

Requirements

• Ruby 3+
• bundler (gem install bundler)
• a fresh Urbit fake ship (currently assumes ~zod)

Setup

1. Check out this repo
2. Run bundle to install the Ruby dependencies
3. Create a copy of config.yml and add your own script and ENV vars. See ./apps/landscape/config.yml for an example

Usage

For a quick demo, start a new fake ~zod and then:

bin/bounce

To use a custom config:

bin/bounce -c ./apps/landscape/config.yml

Or for a ship besides ~zod running on another loopback port (ie, running multiple ships):

bin/bounce -c ./apps/landscape/config.yml -s net -p 12322

The custom config syntax is documented in config.yml.

To find the loopback port, check the fake ship output for the following line:

http: loopback live on http://localhost:12322

Example

Check out the landscape-apps repo for an example of how bouncer is used in production at Tlon.

TODO

• [ ] automated removal of stale pier / creation of new pier (for now, run ./create.sh manually)