Installing the command-line executable

Assuming you have Rust/Cargo installed, run this command in a terminal:

cargo install lets

It will make the lets command available in your PATH if you've allowed the PATH to be modified when installing Rust. cargo uninstall lets uninstalls.

Back to the crate overview.

Readme

`lets`: a simple productivity tool

lets blocks a list of distracting websites of your choice. It works by modifying your /etc/hosts file and pointing the hosts to the own machine.

Because of this, it needs to be run with sudo.

Usage

To use lets, first create a file called /etc/hosts.block with the hosts that you want to block.

$ echo "facebook.com" >> /etc/hosts.block
$ echo "twitter.com" >> /etc/hosts.block
$ echo "reddit.com" >> /etc/hosts.block

To block the hosts, tell the command that you want to work.

$ sudo lets work

To unblock the hosts, tell the command that you want to play.

$ sudo lets play

Disclaimer

lets is a toy project to play with Rust. At the time of writing I'm not considering making it production ready.