First I called it LedgeIt. Then I thought ledge isn’t even a real english verb, so why not make it some more artsy-fartsy. Call it ledgit, seems legit to me. And now I found out, that this term is in the urban dictionary. I think it’s the right name for that script.
A friend of mine introduced me to the magnificent commandline accounting tool ledger. I like the idea a lot, but I miss the comfort of having all banking account transactions synchronized automatically. So I wrote ledgit.
Ledgit provides a simple procedure. First it reads your ledger files and creates an index, so it can later on approximate the right ledger accounts and transaction names for the synchronized entries. Then it invokes the account handlers, which logs into the online banking website, downloads the last transactions as CSV and parses the data into a hash structure, that the generic ledgit method may use to update your ledger files.
I would love to see some people writing handlers for
different online banking websites. It’s basically surfing the website
via the mechanize gem.
To get a clue of the API that handler class has to implement, have a look at leoc/ledgit/lib/handler/dkb.rb.