ledger-charts - generate fancy charts out of your ledger data

ledger-charts is a web app to generate charts out of your ledger data. It uses ledger-rest to access the data.

Charting is done via HighCharts, also uses jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap.

It supports balance, budget and register reports as well as most chart typesHighCharts provides. An exception are pie charts, because the current implementation doesn't provide useful data layouts for those.

Installation instructions

• Install ledger

• Install ruby

• Install the following ruby gems:

  gem install git
  gem install haml
  gem install rack
  gem install sinatra
  gem install thin
  gem install escape
  

• Install ledger-charts in a folder next to ledger-rest:

  mkdir ledger; cd ledger
  git clone https://github.com/profmaad/ledger-rest.git
  git clone https://github.com/profmaad/ledger-charts.git
  

• Create a git repository with a ledger file

  mkdir ledger-data; cd ledger-data
  git init
  echo "2013/05/03 Test transation" >> ledger.ledger
  echo "  expenses:car 12" >> ledger.ledger
  echo "  assets:cash" >> ledger.ledger
  git add ledger.ledger
  git commit -m 'Initial ledger file'
  cd ..
  

• Create a config file ledger-charts/ledger-rest.yml, containing the following (adapt to your setup, of course):

  ledger_bin: "/usr/local/bin/ledger"
  ledger_file: "/path/to/your/ledger.ledger"
  

• Start the webserver to run both ledger-charts and ledger-rest:

  cd ledger-charts
  thin -R both.ru -eproduction --threaded start