Monkey

Personal Home/Office Automation Monkey

I'm slowly teaching my monkey to do all the chores that I don't like. Every now and then I teach it a new trick, but for now, here's what it can do...

Accounting

• reads and manipulates human-readable ledger files
• imports bank statements in CSV format into my accounting ledger

Banking

• does online-banking via HBCI using aqbanking-cli
• checks account balances
• issues transfers

Small-business management

• keeps track of my customers and suppliers
• generates time-sheets for contract work
• generates invoices ready to send

E-mail processing

• accounts for business expenses extracted from received invoices
• stores time-recording reports for later time-sheet and invoice printing

Note: The published code does not do absolutely everything that is mentioned above, some things are still implemented as crude Rake scripts, using Monkey only as a Ruby library.

Usage

Monkey's primary interface is a self-documenting command-line application, but it can as well be used as a Ruby library. I personally use Monkey from pry whenever I want to do something that isn't supported by the command-line interface.

Here's how to get started:

bundle install
bundle exec bin/monkey