How to deploy Ownable contract with Hardhat and Ethers?

Question

When I deploy an Ownable contract via hardhat (hardhat-deploy in particular) to Optimistic Kovan, it doesn't seem to set the owner correctly, whereas when I deploy the same set of contracts via Remix, it does set the owner correctly. I have a github link to the repro here: https://github.com/zawazawa01/ownable-repro.

What's the correct way to deploy these contracts?

My script is the following:

module.exports = async ({getNamedAccounts, getUnnamedAccounts, deployments}) => {
    const {deploy} = deployments;
    const {deployer} = await getNamedAccounts();
    const accounts = await getUnnamedAccounts();
    await deploy('TestOwnable', {
      from: accounts[0],
      args: [],
      log: true,
    });
  };
  module.exports.tags = ['TestOwnable'];

and the relevant network config is

    'kovan-ovm': {
      url: 'https://kovan.optimism.io',
      ovm: true,
      accounts: [process.env.PRIVATE_KEY],
    },

The contract is barebones:

//SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC
pragma solidity 0.7.6;
pragma experimental ABIEncoderV2;

// Inherited
import "@openzeppelin/contracts/access/Ownable.sol";

contract TestOwnable is Ownable {
    constructor() Ownable() {}
}

I deploy this with command yarn deploy:ovm, which runs hardhat deploy --network kovan-ovm, and the transaction succeeds, but according to the logs we can see that ownership is not transferred to the deploying account: https://kovan-optimistic.etherscan.io/tx/0x9740d01219838ea7a7c8155dc30df9fb12a69105014386a14df4aedd9e401aa9#eventlog.

On the other hand, deploying with remix, the transfer of ownership does succeed: https://kovan-optimistic.etherscan.io/tx/0x2b92f8ae26994055d19b5f90fe975dc605177da38865e247cd24f980659315d0#eventlog.

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

Look at Hardhat's Deploying your contracts, they have an example.

It should be something along these lines -

  const TestOwnable = await hre.ethers.getContractFactory("TestOwnable");
  const testOwnable = await TestOwnable.deploy();
  await testOwnable.deployed();