beans

Cool. You refactored someone's code into a totally killer feature that's gonna bump sales just a smidge. And then you went to lunch and found a quarter at the cash register. That's really great, but how many quarters did it cost to tell your co-worker about all this? I mean let's not obsess over it or anything, but it might be good to know.

beans is a simple command line tool to help you understand the value of your time. It's a daemonized stopwatch that measures time (yours) in units of dollars (theirs) and uses Growl notifications to periodically remind you what your time is actually worth.

Unnecessary use of global namespace? Probably.

$ gem install beans

Configuration must be specified in ~/.beans.yml. Port and notification interval are optional. For example:

# beans.yml:
salary: 50000
per: year
hours_per_week: 40
notify_every: 600
port: 7878

To start counting beans, simply type

$ beans

But that's kinda silly. Who wants to dedicate a terminal window to a single number? To daemonize a bean counter, just type

$ beansd start

Then you can start and stop the counter with

$ beans start
$ beans stop

and query the current value with

$ beans

or watch the beans tick by with

$ beans -t

Remember: you waste twice as much money when you talk to someone. Are you talking to someone? Stop that. Or at least use the -n flag:

$ beans -n 2
$ beans -n 2 -t

Kill or restart the daemon, respectively, with

$ beansd stop
$ beansd restart

And you can run the server in the foreground with

$ beans-server

But why would anyone do that?