Openname

A ruby library for the Openname distributed identity & naming system

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'openname'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install openname

Usage

 require "openname"
 user = Openname.get("larry")

 larrys_bitcoin_address = user.bitcoin_address
 larrys_website = user.website

Convenience method git_bitcoin_address can be used for retrieving Bitcoin addresses. If you give it a Bitcoin address it will return the same Bitcoin address; if you give it an Openname it will return the Openname user's Bitcoin address. Useful for allowing end users to either directly specify a Bitcoin address or provide a Openname in the same input field. 

 require "openname"

 larrys_bitcoin_address = Openname.get_bitcoin_address("larry")

 an_address = "143xFrxppUD9oQE7mGvQFe23h814YorMBs
 an_address == Openname.get_bitcoin_address("143xFrxppUD9oQE7mGvQFe23h814YorMBs") # evaluates to true

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request