Setup the Ruby Language
The ruby language is not a Mainstream-Computer-Language. It may be installed on your system, but is then most probably present in a not suitable version. Refer to the official documentation.
We recommend to use rvm to install ruby in user-space. Please follow the install notes and install the most recent ruby version.
$ \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
$ rvm install 3.3
On Debian/Ubuntu-systems rvm can be installed directly via apt: GitHup-Project-Page with instructions.
Next Bundle has to be installed. Its a gem, which is available through
$ gem install bundler
Local Installation
In order become acquainted with the software, you can install the IB-Ruby-Gems in your workspace-directory
and peek into the code.
$ mkdir ~/workspace && cd ~/workspace
$ git clone https://github.com/ib-ruby/ib-api.git
$ cd ib-api
$ bundle install
$ bundle update
Assuming a running TWS is present, everything is in place to discover all features in the console
… in your scripts
To integrate IB-API features
in your scripts, include gem 'ib-api into the Gemfile
and require 'ib-api' in front of your code.
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(Last update: Jul 2, 2024)