Configure Ape

An ape-config.yaml file allows you to configure ape. This guide serves as an index of the settings you can include in an ape-config.yaml file.

Contracts Folder

Specify a different path to your contracts/ directory. This is useful when using a different naming convention, such as src/ rather than contracts/.

contracts_folder: src

You can also use an absolute path. This is useful for projects that compile contracts outside their directory.

contracts_folder: "~/GlobalContracts"

Default Ecosystem

You can change the default ecosystem by including the following:

default_ecosystem: fantom

The default ecosystem is ethereum.

Dependencies

Configure dependencies for your ape project. Ape downloads and caches dependencies in the .ape/packages/<name>/<version-id> directory where <name> refers to the name of the dependency and <version-id> refers to the version or branch of the package.

For example:

dependencies:
  - name: OpenZeppelin
    github: OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts
    version: 4.4.2

will download the Open Zeppelin package with version 4.4.2.

To ignore files from a dependency project, use the exclude setting to specify glob patterns:

dependencies:
  - name: dependency-project-name
    github: org-name/dependency-project-name
    exclude:
      - package.json    # Ignore package.json files.
      - mocks/**/*      # Ignore all files in the 'mocks' directory

To use dependencies in the ape-solidity plugin, configure import_remappings:

solidity: 
  import_remapping:
    - "@openzeppelin=OpenZeppelin/4.4.2"

Now, in your solidity files, import OpenZeppelin sources via:

import "@openzeppelin/token/ERC721/ERC721.sol";

You can also set the branch and name of the dependency’s contracts folder, e.g.:

dependencies:
  - name: DappToolsERC20
    github: dapphub/erc20
    branch: dappnix
    contracts_folder: src

You can also use local dependencies:

dependencies:
  - name: MyDependency
    local: local/path/to/MyDependency
    contracts_folder: src/contracts

This is helpful when:

Working on multiple packages at once
When there is not a suitable DependencyAPI implementation available for downloading your dependency

Deployments

Share import deployments to public networks with your teammates:

deployments:
  ethereum:
    mainnet:
      - contract_type: MyContract
        address: 0xc123aAacCcbBbaAa444777000111222111222111
    ropsten:
      - contract_type: MyContract
        address: 0xc222000cCcbBbaAa444777000111222111222222

Geth

When using the geth provider, you can customize its settings. For example, to change the URI for an Ethereum network, do:

geth:
  ethereum:
    mainnet:
      uri: http://localhost:5030

Networks

Set default network and network providers:

ethereum:
  default_network: mainnet-fork
  mainnet_fork:
    default_provider: hardhat

Plugins

Set which plugins you want to always use:

plugins:
  - name: solidity
    version: 0.1.0b2
  - name: ens

Install these plugins by running command:

ape plugins install

Testing

Configure your test accounts:

test:
  mnemonic: test test test test test test test test test test test junk
  number_of_accounts: 5