ledger_accountable

LedgerAccountable

This gem is in prerelease stages, and should not yet be considered stable for production release.

LedgerAccountable is a gem for recording ledger entries to store an accounting history in your Rails models.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ledger_accountable'

Then execute:

$ bundle install

To create the requisite migrations and models, run:

$ rails generate ledger_accountable

Usage

LedgerAccountable::LedgerOwner

Include LedgerAccountable::LedgerOwner in any model which maintains a ledger - that is, a model whose instances have a sum balance of debits and credits based on the values of Ledger Item associations.

class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
  include LedgerAccountable::LedgerOwner

  has_many :order_items, dependent: :destroy
  has_many :payments, dependent: :destroy
end

This provides methods for tracking the ledger:

• balance - Net sum of all ledger entries
• credit_total - Sum of all credit entries (e.g., payments)
• debit_total - Sum of all debit entries (e.g., charges)

LedgerAccountable::LedgerItem

Include LedgerAccountable::LedgerItem in any associated model of a LedgerAccountable::LedgerOwner to trigger ledger entries when:

• Instances of that model are associated to the Ledger Owner
• Instances of that model are unassociated from the Ledger Owner
• Associated instances of that model are changed
• Associated instances of that model are destroyed

class OrderItem < ActiveRecord::Base
  include LedgerAccountable::LedgerItem

  belongs_to :order

  # Track ledger changes on order with the cost method and provide a net_amount
  # to dynamically compute net changes to its cost
  track_ledger :order,
               amount: :cost,
               net_amount: :net_cost_change,
               type: :debit

  def cost
    quantity * unit_price
  end

  private

  def net_cost_change
    cost - (quantity_was * unit_price_was)
  end
end

class Payment < ActiveRecord::Base
  include LedgerAccountable::LedgerItem

  belongs_to :order

  # Track ledger changes on order with the amount attribute and mark it as a credit
  track_ledger :order, amount: :amount, type: :credit
end

class Refund < ActiveRecord::Base
  include LedgerAccountable::LedgerItem

  belongs_to :order

  # Track ledger changes on order with the amount attribute and mark it as a debit
  track_ledger :order, amount: :amount, type: :debit
end

The track_ledger method accepts the following options:

• amount: Method or attribute that determines the ledger amount (required)
• type: :debit or :credit (defaults to :credit)
• net_amount: Method to calculate amount changes for updates (optional)
• ledger_attributes: Additional attributes that should trigger ledger entries when changed (optional)

Ledger Entry Types

Ledger entries are automatically created in the following scenarios:

• :addition - When a new item is added to a ledger
• :deletion - When an item is removed from a ledger
• :modification - When an item's amount changes

When a LedgerItem changes owners, both a deletion entry for the old owner and an addition entry for the new owner are created in the same transaction