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Show HN: Ledger-analytics – Analytics for ledger-cli
- xrd 8y agoIs 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 8y agoKeeping a copy of the journal in the Keybase filesystem (or Keybase git) could be a good/easy/safe way to do it.
- johntash 8y agoThis 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 8y agoWe use ledger with git for distributed accounting work. Ledger files are plaintext, works really great.
- bergie 8y agoAdditionally 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 8y agoAlso, 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 ;-)
- erikb 8y agoThe 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.
- johntash 8y agoAnother 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 https://github.com/beancount/fava http://furius.ca/beancount/ http://furius.ca/beancount/
- dmix 8y agoGithub README could use a screenshot, especially for a very visual app as analytics. Edit: nm
- cammil 8y agoNice. Anyone aware of the alternatives to this?
- notdang 8y agoI am using this: https://github.com/slashdotdash/node-ledger-web https://github.com/slashdotdash/node-ledger-web
- swissarmy__ 8y agoWow I wasn't aware that existed. Searching for ledger-web just returns me the ruby project (and I don't really want to run ruby projects). Thanks for showing me that
- stevenringo 8y agoHi. This looks fantastic. Well done. Has anyone tried this with hledger (http://hledger.org/ http://hledger.org/) ? The file formats are quite similar, so hoping it wouldn’t be too hard to get it to work. Thanks.
- smichael 8y agoIt 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.)
- smichael 8y agoDraft: https://gist.github.com/simonmichael/5b0d3aafb4b71ccdadaa4fd02beac475 https://gist.github.com/simonmichael/5b0d3aafb4b71ccdadaa4fd...
- kendrick__ 8y agoThanks! I'll definitely look into that
- Khaine 8y agoLooks great. Can't wait to try it