Let's Freckle

Freckle directly from your terminal

nb: the setup might be a bit long but after you're done with this, you'll be freckling away 🙂

Setup

On Freckle Dashboard

1. Go to your freckle dashboard
2. Navigate to Freckle Api under Connected Apps
3. Click on the settings of Personal Access Tokens and create a token. You could use letsfreckle_client for the application name.
4. PLEASE SAVE YOUR TOKEN BEFORE CLOSING THAT PAGE

Setting up the project

1. Ensure you have python install

brew install python

2. Ensure you have virtualenv installed, I prefer to use virtualenv wrapper. Read here
3. Clone project

git clone git@github.com:laddeos/letsfreckle.git

4. Create your virtualenv. command shown assumes virtualenv wrapper

mkvirtualenv letsfreckle

5. Navigate to project and install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Create a .env file in the root directory of your project

├── .env
├── .gitignore
├── README.md
├── freckle.py
├── log_freckle.py
├── readme_img
└── requirements.txt

7. Save your Personal Freckle Token in the .env file

access_token='personal_token'

8. Optional create an alias to easily navigate to the project folder to get you started toot sweet

alias letsfreckle="workon letsfreckle && cd <path_to_project>"

And you are all set!!!

Let's Freckle

1. Once you are all setup, in the folder directory run below to view what is possible

python log_freckle -h

2. Log for today

python log_freckle.py today 480 <Project> <Description/Tag>

3. Log for any date as long as date is in the format yyyy-mm-dd

python log_freckle.py 2017-06-17 480 <Project> <Description/Tag>

4. If you have the alias setup, you can always type the alias to easily navigate to the project and freckle away

That's all folks!!!!! 🐰

Errors

If you spot an error feel free to reach out to me or drop an issue and tag me. Bye for now