Jirawatch

Jirawatch is a simple CLI tool that allows you to track the time you spend on a particular Jira issue without having to access your crowded backlog/kanban. Tracking time is as simple as typing:

jirawatch track ISSUE-873

After that, jirawatch will start tracking your time and, once you're done, you can press Ctrl-c to stop the time tracking and allow jirawatch to save it into the Jira worklogs of the related issue. If you need to stop tracking time, just press Ctrl-p and then press it again to resume.

Installation

From RubyGems

Simply run

gem install jirawatch

And you're good to go!

From GPR

This gem is also available on the Github Public Repository. To install it using the gem command, run

gem install jirawatch --source "https://rubygems.pkg.github.com/apontini"

With Docker/Podman

You can execute jirawatch without installing it on your machine! Jirawatch is available via Docker/Podman too. To run it just type:

docker run apontini/jirawatch

and you're good to go!

If you feel like doing everything by yourself it can be built from the repository with:

docker build -t <your username>/jirawatch
docker run <your username>/jirawatch # enjoy the magic

Keep in mind that you need to setup persistence in order to store Jirawatch's configuration files. You can put in your .bashrc or .zshrc the following alias:

alias jirawatch="docker run --rm -it -v${HOME}/.jirawatch:/root/.jirawatch -v/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro apontini/jirawatch"

This will ensure persistence and will not modify your machine with additional packages ;)

The manual way

You need to install Ruby (2.7.0 was used do develop this gem but it should work from 2.1.0 onwards) using rbenv.

As a side note, I highly discourage installing Ruby without rbenv and installing rbenv from a package manager (reason is that rbenv packages are severely outdated most of the time), unless you know what you're doing of course!

After that, clone this repository and build this gem using:

gem build jirawatch.gemspec

and install it with:

gem install jirawatch-<gem-version>.gem

You should be good to go!

How to use

As I stated before, this is not a complex tool! There are a few commands implemented as of right now:

jirawatch version               # Prints the current jirawatch version
jirawatch login                 # Allows to log you in to Jira then saves your credentials if the operation succeeded
jirawatch projects              # Lists all Jira projects
jirawatch issues [project-key]  # Lists every issue related to a project
jirawatch track [issue-key]     # Starts tracking time for an issue

You need to register your Jira credentials first, before you can start tracking. Be sure to have a valid API Token for your account (which you can generate at https://id.atlassian.com/manage/api-tokens). Then use the login command and follow the prompt instructions. If everything is successful, you're good to go!