Ldgr

Ldgr is a command-line tool for adding, sorting and tagging transactions in your Ledger file. It's rather opinionated in that it requires you to break down your Ledger file into multiple files.

~/.config/ledger/
   -> ledger.dat
   -> setup.dat
   -> transactions.dat
   -> accounts.dat
   -> commodities.dat
   -> budgets.dat
   -> aliases.dat

ldgr can't handle all the text manipulation of transactions unless it can expect the text in the file to be just transaction data. This may be addressed in the future, but for now, please ahere to this file structure. I think you'll find it works well. You can use the include directive in Ledger files to add everything into the ledger.dat file.

For maximum compatibility, alias ledger="ledger --init-file ~/.config/ledger/ledgerrc", where the RC file contains frequently used command-line options.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ldgr'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ldgr

Usage

Type ldgr -h at the command-line to see available commands and options.

CLI

ldgr add --payee Brandon \
         --amount 1000 \
         --account Something \
         --equity Cash \
         --date 2017-02-01 \
         --effective 2017-02-03 \
         --cleared`
ldgr clear
ldgr sort

Library

transaction = Ldgr::Transaction.new do |t|
    t.payee = 'Brandon'
    t.amount = '1000'
    t.account = 'Something'
    t.equity = 'Cash'
    t.date = Date.today + 1
    t.effective = Date.today + 10
    t.cleared = true
end

Ledger works with plain text files, so yes, the amount attribute should be a string.

TODO

Currently, the Ledger file is a constant set to ~/.config/ledger/transactions.dat. This should probably be customizable, possibly with a .ldgrrc in the future. Also, the default currency is Japanese Yen. You can change this the --currency $ flag on the command line or setting it in the Transaction.new block. In the future, this should be set in an rc file.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/brandonpittman/ldgr. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.