Okay, so today I wanted to mess around with something called “raichu”. I’d heard about it, and it sounded interesting, so I figured, why not? I’m going to walk you through what I did, step-by-step. It’s not super complicated, but it was new to me, so maybe this will help someone else out there.
Getting Started
First things first, I needed to get this “raichu” thing installed. I’m using a Mac.
It had a command to install, typed into my computer terminal:
bash<(curl -sSL *)
I fired up my terminal and pasted that in. The install finished.
First Test
Then the guide gave me a command to test with, I copied and pasted, again, into my terminal:
raichu 127.0.0.1
I ran into my terminal and it worked!
Figuring Out the Basics
I pasted these commands into my terminal and they worked:
- -h, –help:Shows a help message. Good for figuring things out.
- -p, –port string:Seems like I can specify a port to run. The default is 7070.
- -r, –rpc string: This is for setting up an RPC address. Default is 127.0.0.1:7071.
- -v, –version: Just shows the version number of raichu.
- –log string:Lets me save logs with all of these outputs.
Okay, seems simple.
Putting it all Together
I wanted to run it on a custom port and log it, so I typed in:
raichu 127.0.0.1 -p 8080 --log my_raichu_*
Boom! It started running, and I could check the my_raichu_* file and it outputs all of those logs.
And that’s pretty much it for my basic raichu experiment. It was straightforward to get it running, and the basic options make sense. I need to play around with it more to see what else I can do, but this was a good starting point. Hopefully, my little walk-through helps someone else get their feet wet with raichu!
