Bridgetown IB-Ruby plugin

This plugin enables the interaction with the TWS-API of Interactive Brokers

$ bundle add bridgetown-ib-ruby

Then add a file tws.yml to the config directory. This is an example:

# TWS/Gateway
#
# Enter Port values as part of the `host`-entry:
#  4001/7496  for active accounts
#  4002/7497 for demo account
---
:get_account_data:  true
:serial_array: false
:host: localhost:4002
:watchlists: 
 - :Spreads
 - :Stillhalter
 - :BuyAndHold 
:client_id: 2001

The Bridgetown-Initializer parses config/initializers for each environment. If the console (bin/bt c) is run, the file is parsed once. If the development-server is used (bin/bt s) the initializer is parsed to render static pages and once again in server-mode. We have to prevent the first run:

# in config/initialisers.rb
only :server, :console do
    init :"bridgetown-ib-ruby"
end

If IB-Ruby-Objects should be present in server and static mode, omit the setting of client_id. Then IB::Connection connects with an arbitrary client-id and Bridgetown runs two instances of the software.

IB::Gateway-methods are present via IB::Gateway.current.
To rely on ib-api the IB::Connection-object is present via IB::Connection.current.

IB::Contracts (IB::Stock, IB::Option, IB::Future, IB::Forex, ...) and IB::Spreads (IB::Strangle, IB::Straddle, IB::Calendar ...) are available. IB::Symbols and Watchlists are present as well as enhanced order-types ( IB::Limit.order, IB::Stop.order ...)

There is a blog entry on topofocus.de (in german): https://topofocus.de/blog/bridgtown-plugin/

1. Fork it (https://github.com/bridgetownrb/bridgetown-activerecord/fork)
2. Clone the fork using git clone to your local development machine.
3. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create a new Pull Request