activemerchant undefined method 'month'

Question

I'm building an application that handles different types of transactions for different services such as subscriptions, gift subscriptions and purchases.

I have an issue with the gift transactions and activemerchant. Ill give you a brief overview of how it works.

The user creates a gift subscription and fills out the data for it, it is stored in the db and then shown back to the user for review in a custom "show_view", the user then proceeds to enter credit card information in a separate form and when he submits the data, a method from the controller is called to handle the transaction and here is where Im having issues.

This is the gift_subscription.rb model

    def gift_purchase
    response = GATEWAY.purchase(price, credit_card, gift_purchase_options)
    GiftTransaction.create!(:action => "gift_purchase", :amount => price, :response => response)
    response.success?
  end
  private
  def gift_purchase_options
    {
        :ip => ip_address,
        :billing_address => {
            :name     => name + last_name,
            :address1 => address1,
            :city     => city,
            :state    => state,
            :country  => "Mexico",
            :zip      => zip
        }
    }
  end

  def validate_card
    unless credit_card.valid?
      credit_card.errors.full_messages.each do |message|
        errors[:base] << message
      end
    end
  end

  def credit_card
    @credit_card = ActiveMerchant::Billing::CreditCard.new(
        :brand              => card_type,
        :number             => card_number,
        :verification_value => card_verification,
        :month              => card_expires_on.month,
        :year               => card_expires_on.year,
        :first_name         => name,
        :last_name          => last_name
    )

And here is the gift_subscription_controller.rb

def review
    @gift_subscription = GiftSubscription.find(params[:id])
  end

  def edit_review
    @gift_subscription = GiftSubscription.find(params[:id])
  end

  def update_review
  @gift_subscription = GiftSubscription.find(params[:id])

    respond_to do |format|
      if @gift_subscription.update_attributes(params[:gift_subscription])
        format.html { redirect_to "gift_subscriptions/review/#{@gift_subscription.id}", :notice => 'Gift subscription was successfully updated.' }
        format.json { head :no_content }
      else
        format.html { render :action => "edit_review" }
        format.json { render :json => @gift_subscription.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end
  end

  def do_gift_transaction
    @gift_subscription = GiftSubscription.find(params[:id])
    if @gift_subscription.gift_purchase
        redirect_to '/thank_you'
    else
        redirect_to "/gift_subscriptions/#{@gift_subscription.id}/failed_transaction"
    end
  end

  def failed_transaction
    @gift_subscription = GiftSubscription.find(params[:id])
    @gift_transactions = @gift_subscription.gift_transactions
  end

  def transaction_details
    @gift_subscription = GiftSubscription.find(params[:id])
  end

To make things a little more clear, from the controller create method, it redirects users to the review action where there's an edit_review in case they want to change something, then they go to transaction_details where they enter creditcard info and finally the method do_gift_transaction is called to actually do the transaction.

The error I get is the following

NoMethodError in GiftSubscriptionsController#do_gift_transaction

undefined method `month' for nil:NilClass
Rails.root: /home/peanut/RubymineProjects/GiftBox

Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace
app/models/gift_subscription.rb:44:in `credit_card'
app/models/gift_subscription.rb:12:in `gift_purchase'
app/controllers/gift_subscriptions_controller.rb:113:in `do_gift_transaction'

I've been looking around and I can't seem to find why it doesnt recognize the month... For other subscriptions I have basically the same model (a few diferences) but it works perfectly. Any help here would be much appreciated.

GiftSubscription model attributes

attr_accessible :response, :name, :last_name, :address1, :address2,:city,
                  :state, :zip, :card_type, :ip_address, :price,
                  :duration, :created_at, :card_expires_on, :card_number,
                  :card_verification, :message

  has_one :gift_transactions, :class_name => "GiftTransaction"
  attr_accessor :card_number, :card_verification
  validate :validate_card, :on => :transaction_details

Are you sure there is an expiry date on the `credit_card` you are using? — Zach Kemp, Oct 18 '12 at 23:11
Im sorry I dont understand what you mean.. Activemerchant requires those fields to validate every card as far as I know. Also Im using an identical method to handle normal subscription transactions and that works fine, the only difference is that for those I actually store cc information in the db for recurrent subscriptions @Zach_Kemp — art20, Oct 18 '12 at 23:18
`undefined method `month' for nil:NilClass` means you're calling `month` somewhere on a nil object that you expected to be something else. The reason I ask is that `card_expires_on.month` seems to be the only place `.month` is called. — Zach Kemp, Oct 18 '12 at 23:21
Yes, that is the only place I am calling it, it is being filled in the transaction_details view with `<%= f.date_select :card_expires_on ...%>` — art20, Oct 18 '12 at 23:25
Can you post the last `GiftSubscription` model's attributes? — Zach Kemp, Oct 18 '12 at 23:34

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 19 '12 at 01:52

So after a few hours of banging my head it turned out to be quite simple... In the view to enter credit card data, the fields that were supposed to be saved to the db were not being saved because I only had a link_to button to continue and ergo when the credit_card method was called, it was empty.

Thanks to lander16 for pointing this out.

activemerchant undefined method 'month'

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