This project is originally by Logical Reality Design, Inc., and was built primarily by Evan Dorn, Judson Lester, and Hannah Howard with contributions from many other current and past contractors of LRD.
TimePulse features a few key features we find useful in a team time-tracking application.
- Both punchclock and manual entry clocking
- Integration with GitHub and Pivotal Tracker - clocked time is associated automatically with PT tickets and with Git commits.
- Heirarchical tree of projects, with attribute inheritance
- Unified interface for both invoicing clients and paying subcontractors/staff
- Invoice generation
- Multiple customizable rates for each project
- Workers can be individually assigned to a rate on a per-project basis
TimePulse is a Rails 3.2 + MySQL application, with a modest amount of JavaScript written with jQuery and NinjaScript. It should run fine on any platform capable of running a Ruby 1.9.3 + Rails 3.2 application, with few other dependencies.
TimePulse provides callback endpoints for both GitHub and PivotalTracker. If the URL at which you run TimePulse is configured in either or both services, activity (commits, ticket state changes, etc.) will be saved with your time logs. Invoice reports can then be generated which show (for example) all the git traffic and pivotal tickets that were completed during the period being billed for, and associated to the developer and/or work hours entry.
Documentation and examples can be found at timepulse.io.
Assuming you have a place to deploy already set up, you'll need to:
- Clone this repository
- Set up deploy scripts (for Capistrano, or whatever system you prefer)
- Copy and configure the credentials files, particularly config/database.yml, config/initializers/smtp.rb, config/initializers/session_secret.rb and config/initializers/api_keys.rb
- Create a database
- Deploy and seed the database
- Log in as the initial admin user
For now, you'll probably need solid knowledge of Rails to customize and deploy this app. We're working on making it a simpler process for future users.
Fork and Pull Request! Y'all know the drill by now. Please make sure the tests pass, and add tests for your code.
TimePulse was first built as an internal time-tracking application for LRD in early 2011. Since then it's grown and expanded, and in October 2013 we decided to open-source the project.
- Austin Fonacier
- Charles Hudson
- Evan Dorn
- Hannah Howard
- Judson Lester
- Michael McCormick
- Nate Berggren
- Scott Van Essen
- Tom Jakubowski
TimePulse is released under a restricted license. See the accompanying LICENSE file for details.