CLI tool to balance your budget

• Cross-platform
• Arbitrary shell commands are supported.

balance --help will provide a menu of all available commands and optional arguments.

$ balance tx -a 300 -A "expense:grocery"
transaction = {
    date: None,
    amount: 300,
    account: "expense:grocery",
    offset_account: None,
    description: None,
}
$ balance tx -a 300 -A "expense:grocery" -d 20221231 -O "asset:cash_checking" -D "Weekly grocery"
transaction = {
    date: Some(20221231),
    amount: 300,
    account: "expense:grocery",
    offset_account: Some("asset:cash_checking"),
    description: Some("Weekly grocery"),
}

$ balance add balance.yml
&path = [ "balance.yml", ]

Run a docker container to demo the CLI without installing it:

docker run lloydlobo/balance

Add SECRET to the .env file as <your SECRET key> without </>.

BALANCE_API_KEY=<your SECRET key>

TODO:

cargo install balance

Alternatively, clone this repo and do the following:

• If Rust is not installed on your machine, follow the instructions on how to do that here: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
• run cargo build --release to compile the binary
• copy the /target/release/balance binary to /usr/bin or wherever your system maintains application binaries

git clone https://github.com/lloydlobo/balance.git
cd balance
cargo build --release
cargo install --path .

docker_image := "balance"
docker_container_name := 'balance1'
username := 'lloydlobo'

docker build -t {{docker_image}} .
docker run -dp 8080:3030 --rm --name {{docker_container_name}} {{docker_image}}
docker run -it --rm --name {{docker_container_name}} --entrypoint bin/bash {{docker_image}}
docker stop {{docker_container_name}}
docker logs -f {{docker_container_name}}

docker tag {{docker_image}} {{username}}/{{docker_image}}
docker push {{username}}/{{docker_image}}

CARGO_LOG=error cargo test

balance is dual-licensed under the terms of the MIT License and the Apache License 2.0.

See the LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT files for details.