Show HN: Ledger-analytics – Analytics for ledger-cli

https://github.com/kendricktan/ledger-analytics

by kendrick__ • 8 years ago

102 19 8 years ago

xrd• 8 years ago

Is ledger something anyone has installed on a private cloud? I'm interested in using this with the cli but would love to know if there is a way to make it a little less centralized but still secure?

zorked• 8 years ago

Keeping a copy of the journal in the Keybase filesystem (or Keybase git) could be a good/easy/safe way to do it.

johntash2• 8 years ago

This is what I currently do, and it works pretty well. I just have a regular git repo in keybase-git and have my ledger(beancount) files plus whatever scripts I need to import statements from various banks/credit cards.

jdemler• 8 years ago

We use ledger with git for distributed accounting work.

Ledger files are plaintext, works really great.

bergie• 8 years ago

Additionally you can use CI for testing and validating the ledger files.

For example we check that expenses don't overrun their allocated budget, and that there is still enough months of runway in left.

mikekchar• 8 years ago

Also, if you encrypt it using GPG with multiple keys, it will allow only a few people to work with it. Probably best to write a script that does it because not everybody understands how GPG works ;-)

erikb2• 8 years ago

The central point is the content of your data. Also incomplete datasets should still work fine with both ledger and this analytics tool. So, not sure how it could be less centralized than this.

johntash2• 8 years ago

Another option to consider is Fava. It's a web frontend for Beancount which is another plain-text accounting tool similar to ledger. There's no authentication or security on the frontend, but you could probably put it behind basic auth+ssl to start with.

https://github.com/beancount/fava http://furius.ca/beancount/

dmix2• 8 years ago

Github README could use a screenshot, especially for a very visual app as analytics.

Edit: nm

erikb2• 8 years ago

It's loading two gifs for me.

dmix2• 8 years ago

Apologies, I'm on a slow coffeeshop connection.

cammil2• 8 years ago

Nice. Anyone aware of the alternatives to this?

notdang• 8 years ago

I am using this: https://github.com/slashdotdash/node-ledger-web

stevenringo• 8 years ago

Hi. This looks fantastic. Well done. Has anyone tried this with hledger (http://hledger.org/) ? The file formats are quite similar, so hoping it wouldn’t be too hard to get it to work. Thanks.

smichael2• 8 years ago

It looks not too hard - four invocations of ledger in analyze.js which would need to be adapted for hledger. (I'd give it a try, but I failed to get the app's main page working.)

smichael2• 8 years ago

Draft: https://gist.github.com/simonmichael/5b0d3aafb4b71ccdadaa4fd...

kendrick__• 8 years ago

Thanks! I'll definitely look into that

Khaine• 8 years ago

Looks great. Can't wait to try it

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