= acts_as_account

== Theory

ActsAsAccount implements a "Double Entry Accounting" system for your 
Rails-models.

It hooks into ActiveRecord and allows to add accounts to any model by 
simply means of adding "has_account" to your model. Because the accounts
are connected via a has_many relation no migration to the account-holder
tables is needed.

We also hook into the ActionController request cycle to warn the developer 
if a request has left the uncommitted changes in the system.

== How to test

Run the cucumber features from the acs_as_account gem, just execute
* rake features:create_database 
* cucumber

== Links

* Double Entry Accounting in a Relational Database: http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~m-wigley/gc_wp_ded.html

== Credits

This gem was written for the payment backend of betterplace.org by Thies C. Arntzen (http://github.com/thieso2) and Norman Timmler (github.com/unnu).

== Copyright
 
Copyright (c) 2010 gut.org gAG