Money-Rails Gem: Humanized_money in Models

Question

In my Donations Model, I have monetized the amount_cents column

I need the humanized version of the donation amount (Eg. 643.50) in the Model so I can generate and send a PDF receipt to the donor.

I've tried humanized_money(self.amount) and self.amount.humanized_money but get the error :

NoMethodError: undefined method `humanized_money' for #<Donation:0x007fa687ebb678>

How can I get this humanized form in the Models?

class Donation < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :donatable, polymorphic: true
  belongs_to :added_by_user, foreign_key: "added_by", class_name: "User"

  store_accessor :details, :method

  monetize :amount_cents

  def donations_this_week(branch_id)
    sum =  Donation.sum(:amount_cents).to_money
    return humanized_money(sum)
  end

  def receipt
    Receipts::Receipt.new(
        id: id,
        product: "GoRails",
        message: "This receipt is to acknowledge that we have received a donation with the below details from #{self.donatable.name}",
        company: {
            name: self.donatable.branch.organization.name,
            address: "#{self.donatable.branch.address_line_1}\n#{self.donatable.branch.address_line_2}\n#{self.donatable.branch.email}\n#{self.donatable.branch.legal_details}",
            email: self.donatable.branch.email,
            logo: self.donatable.branch.organization.logo.url(:medium),
        },
        line_items: [
            ["Date",           created_at.to_s],
            ["Donor Name", self.donatable.name],
            ["Amount",         humanized_money(self.amount)],
            ["Payment Method",     self.method],
        ]
    )
  end
end

Below is the database schema :

create_table "donations", force: :cascade do |t|
t.string   "donatable_type"
t.integer  "donatable_id"
t.integer  "amount_cents"
t.datetime "created_at",                  null: false
t.datetime "updated_at",                  null: false
t.datetime "date"
t.integer  "added_by"
t.jsonb    "details",        default: {}, null: false

You should post your Donation model, particularly the the part where you monetize the amount field. Right off, I can tell you the problem is that you're calling `humanized_money` on a `Donation` object. You need to call that method with a `Money` object as the parameter. — MarsAtomic, Aug 19 '15 at 04:44
post the code where you are calling `humanize_money`. I am guessing that maybe you are calling `humanized_money` on something that is not a money_object — Luis Menjivar, Aug 19 '15 at 04:48
could you check the column type of `amount ` in your database? — K M Rakibul Islam, Aug 19 '15 at 04:57
the helper calls a money method that can be called directly in the model without include the whole helper in the model https://stackoverflow.com/a/49285750/1536309 — Blair Anderson, Mar 14 '18 at 18:58

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '16 at 20:01

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To do this without loading everything in ActionView::Base. You can just do

return ActionController::Base.helpers.humanized_money sum

answered Jan 08 '16 at 20:01

Optimus Pette

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 16 '17 at 00:40

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Including ActionView::Base will add a LOT of extra stuff to your model, do NOT do it this way.

Do this instead:

include MoneyRails::ActionViewExtension

This way you get all (5 at the time of this post) of the money view helper methods.

answered Sep 16 '17 at 00:40

Mitch Nick

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THIS! Even saw solutions that this `ActionView::Base.new.humanized_money(10)` Especially when you have a plain api and dont even use action view... – Denny Mueller Jul 04 '18 at 13:36

K M Rakibul Islam · Answer 3 · 2015-08-19T06:39:41.803

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NoMethodError: undefined method `humanized_money' for #<Donation:0x007fa687ebb678>

From the error message its clear that you are calling the humanized_money helper method for a Donation object, NOT a Money object. That's why its failing.

If you monetized the amount_cents column properly already, then automagically, your amount column will be of Money type i.e. Money object which you can pass to the humanized_money helper method as parameter like this:

humanized_money amount

I would say, check the type of your amount and make sure its a Money object which it should be if you properly monetized amount_cents column of your Donation model. That's why it's not working in this case.

Update

Looks like humanized_money is defined in the action_view_extension of the money-rails gem and expected to work in views only. Not in model.

A possible solution to this problem would be to include ActionView::Base module in the Model, that would make the humanized_money method available inside the model. And then you can call humanized_money in your model like:

 include ActionView::Base
 humanized_money(sum)

edited Aug 19 '15 at 06:39

answered Aug 19 '15 at 04:51

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I'm pretty sure it is, when I run Donation.last.amount on the console, I get : => # – Michael Victor Aug 19 '15 at 05:00
on which line its failing? `return humanized_money(sum)` OR `["Amount", humanized_money(self.amount)]`? – K M Rakibul Islam Aug 19 '15 at 05:05
Okay, can you inspect this: `puts Donation.sum(:amount_cents).to_money.inspect` what do you see? – K M Rakibul Islam Aug 19 '15 at 05:09
`(0.4ms) SELECT SUM("donations"."amount_cents") FROM "donations" # => nil` – Michael Victor Aug 19 '15 at 05:14
ok, so its a `Money` object. Then I don't see any reason for its failing :( Seems to be, it does not work in a Model class for some reason. Can you try it in your view? I am sure it will work. – K M Rakibul Islam Aug 19 '15 at 05:18
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/87337/discussion-between-k-m-rakibul-islam-and-michael-victor). – K M Rakibul Islam Aug 19 '15 at 05:19

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 14 '18 at 18:57

Do NOT need to include the helper in your model.

price_options = {
  :no_cents_if_whole => MoneyRails::Configuration.no_cents_if_whole.nil? ? true : MoneyRails::Configuration.no_cents_if_whole,
  :symbol => true
}
your_money_column.format(price_options)

source code on github

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 19 '15 at 05:58

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KM Rakibul is right about the helper not being included in ActiveRecord but they are hooked to ActionView::Base so to include them use:

include ActionView::Base

answered Aug 19 '15 at 05:58

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