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Life & fun · September 17, 2014

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LEWT – Lazy Enterprise for Hackers Without Time

LEWT – Lazy Enterprise for Hackers Without Time launched on September 17, 2014 with 10 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

In plain words

LEWT is a Ruby-based command line program and library for managing business finances. It helps users invoice customers, track expenses, and generate reports through a streamlined workflow called extract, process, render. Designed for developers who want minimal accounting friction, LEWT is built to be easily extended and comes with sample data to get started quickly. Users need Ruby and Ruby Gems installed to run it.

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From the sources

LEWT is a command line program & library written in Ruby that can help you invoice customers, manage expenses, generate reports and much more. It is designed to encourage lazy accounting, to get more out of it, and to be extended with minimal friction. LEWT requires you have Ruby & Ruby Gems installed on your machine. Once you have that sorted: # output lewt's version number lewt --version LEWT ships with some dummy data and config so you can jump straight into the quick start guide. The LEWT program is based around a procedure I call extract, process, render [EPR]. Data is extracted from some source(s) and transformed into a general ledger data structure, this is then passed to the…from jwije.com

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