class ACH::File
An ACH::File
instance represents an actual ACH
file. Every file has an ACH::File::Header
and ACH::File::Control
records and a variable number of ACH::Batches. The ACH::File::TransmissionHeader
is optional. (Refer to the target financial institution’s documentation.)
Example¶ ↑
# Subclass ACH::File to set default values: class CustomAchFile < ACH::File immediate_dest '123123123' immediate_dest_name 'COMMERCE BANK' immediate_origin '123123123' immediate_origin_name 'MYCOMPANY' end # Create a new instance: ach_file = CustomAchFile.new do batch(:entry_class_code => "WEB", :company_entry_descr => "TV-TELCOM") do effective_date Time.now.strftime('%y%m%d') desc_date Time.now.strftime('%b %d').upcase origin_dfi_id "00000000" entry :customer_name => 'JOHN SMITH', :customer_acct => '61242882282', :amount => '2501', :routing_number => '010010101', :bank_account => '103030030' end end # convert to string ach_file.to_s! # => returns string representation of file # write to file ach_file.write('custom_ach.txt')
Public Class Methods
read(filename)
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Open a filename
and pass its handler to the ACH::Reader object, which uses it as an enum to scan for ACH
contents line by line.
@param [String] filename @return [ACH::File]
# File lib/ach/file.rb, line 53 def self.read(filename) ::File.open(filename) do |fh| Reader.new(fh).to_ach end end