Setting up Truffle to interact with Ganache

Setting up Truffle to interact with Ganache GUI

Edit the truffle.js file. add:

networks: {
ganache: {
 host: "localhost",
 port: "7545",
 netork_id: "*"
}
}

Go to the project directory in terminal. we have to tell truffle to migrate the contract to the ganache network

truffle migrate --compile-all --reset --network ganache

Interact with ganache

truffle console --network ganache

Interact with the contract

Greetings.address
Greetings.deployed().then(function(instance){app=instance;})
app.getGreetings()
app.setGreetings("hello",{from: web3.eth.accounts[0]})