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I would like to run a local fork of Ropsten to interact with some of the smart contracts without having to fill up from the tap.
My plan was to start a light parity node as follows:
parity --chain ropsten --light --no-serve-light
This worked well, however, when I try to run a local ganache-cli fork:
ganache-cli --fork <here I copy-pasted my enode:// URL>
It crashes with the following error:
Error: CONNECTION ERROR: Couldn't connect to node <my enode://>
Parity should be run in RPC mode as follows:
parity --chain ropsten --light --no-serve-light --jsonrpc-port=8545
And then the following command works to issue a fork:
ganache-cli --fork http://localhost:8545
Ganache expect a JSON-RPC node. Something like this should work
ganache-cli --fork http://localhost:8545
For ropsten, you can easily mine ether, if you use a GPU. The difficulty is very low and you can mine 50-90% of the blocks. I used this approach multiple times and was able to mine 10-20k ether in a day multiple times.
