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