feat(goals): surface money that left a goal's accounts unexplained

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Important

Stacked on #3160, #3165, #3167 and #3176 — do not merge before them. The commit list carries all four. One commit belongs to this PR, feat(goals): surface money that left a goal's accounts unexplained, and it rebases down to that single commit once they land. #3176 is a hard dependency: this is the surface that calls its consume!.

Why

Goals never read transactions. current_balance is a stock summed from account balances, so an outflow reaches a goal only as a smaller number, with nothing saying which goal it belonged to.

#3176 gives the user a way to say "I spent this". It does not give them a reason to think of it — and that is the whole difficulty. Somebody who has just come home from the holiday their goal paid for is not going to open the app and file it. The app already knows the money left; it was simply waiting to be asked.

What changed

Goal::WithdrawalDetector finds outflows on a goal's accounts that nothing has claimed, and the goal page offers them: if any of this was spent on Trip, say so. One click records it, with the transaction as evidence.

This is the pull half of what GoalPledge does for money coming in. A pledge asks first and matches later; here there is nothing to promise, so the outflow is surfaced after the fact and attributed — or ignored, which is also an answer.

What reviewers should look at

The sign. In Sure an inflow carries a negative amount, so the detector selects the positive side. Reading it the other way round would offer to attribute the user's own deposits as spending, and the mistake would look perfectly reasonable in a diff. There is a test whose only job is to pin that.

The stamp. consume! now takes a transaction and writes extra["goal"]["consumed_goal_id"] — the same namespace the pledges already use, so both halves of a goal's money are marked alike. That is what makes attribution idempotent: replaying it cannot credit a goal twice for one spend. The stamp happens inside the consumption's own database transaction, so a refusal rolls the whole thing back rather than leaving a goal credited for a spend it did not record.

The reserve exclusion. A reserve is drawn down and refilled, not spent. Asking someone to attribute a withdrawal from one invites them to erase the shortfall it exists to report — the same signal #3175 raises an insight about.

Bounds, and why each one

• MIN_AMOUNT — below it an attribution is more friction than it is worth. A goal-backed savings account sees card-sized outflows nobody wants to file. Same known limitation as IdleCashGenerator::MIN_BALANCE: a flat figure in family-currency units, tuned for dollar/euro-scale currencies.
• LOOKBACK_DAYS — an outflow nobody attributed in three months is one nobody is going to. Asking forever turns the panel into a chore.
• Three at a time, newest first — the panel is a prompt, not a reconciliation ledger.

A known asymmetry

GoalPledge::Reconciler only runs on provider imports, never on a hand-entered transaction. This detector reads entries directly and has no such gap, so the two halves of the feature do not behave the same way on a manual account. Worth knowing rather than discovering.

Testing

bin/rails test — 7100 runs, 28540 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors. RuboCop, erb_lint and Brakeman clean.

Nine detector tests: the happy path, the sign, the threshold, excluded entries, the window, an already-attributed outflow, a reserve, an account the goal does not fund, and the ordering with its cap. Three controller tests: the panel appearing, an attribution taking the transaction's own amount and disappearing afterwards, and the same outflow refused on a second attempt.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added one-off goals and maintained reserve goals.
  • Record partial spending and attribute unmatched outflows.
  • Added reserve funding, depletion, shortfall, and intact-status indicators.
  • Goal forms adapt to the selected goal type.
  • Added clearer lifecycle panels and completion confirmations.

• Improvements

  • Completed goals retain achieved amounts after spending.
  • Earmarking and projections better reflect released, consumed, and reserved funds.
  • Prevented conflicting whole-account allocations.
  • Added safeguards against duplicate spending and invalid goal changes.
  • Added clearer validation messages and English/French translations.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Goals now support one-off spending and maintained reserves. The change adds lifecycle persistence, consumption and outflow attribution, whole-account link validation, reserve-specific calculations, updated controller flows, and reserve-oriented form and status presentation.

Changes

Goal lifecycle and reserve behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Lifecycle data and domain rules db/migrate/*, db/schema.rb, app/models/goal.rb, app/models/account.rb, config/locales/models/goal/*, test/models/goal_test.rb, test/models/goal_consumption_test.rb	Goals gain one_off and maintained kinds, completion snapshots, consumed amounts, released-state handling, reserve statuses, and updated balance and projection calculations.
Whole-account link exclusivity app/models/goal_account.rb, app/models/account.rb, config/locales/models/goal_account/*, test/models/goal_account_test.rb, test/fixtures/goal_accounts.yml, test/models/assistant/function/create_goal_test.rb, test/controllers/goals_controller_test.rb	Whole-account links reject conflicting active claims while allowing fixed allocations, released goals, legacy overlaps, and valid account moves.
Consumption and outflow attribution app/models/goal.rb, app/models/goal/withdrawal_detector.rb, app/controllers/goals_controller.rb, config/routes.rb, app/views/goals/consume.html.erb, app/views/goals/_unattributed_outflows.html.erb, app/views/goals/show.html.erb, config/locales/views/goals/*, test/models/goal_consumption_test.rb, test/models/goal/withdrawal_detector_test.rb, test/controllers/goals_controller_test.rb	One-off goals can record spending, attribute detected outflows, update earmarks transactionally, and reject invalid amounts, accounts, transactions, and reserve consumption.
Reserve forms and status presentation app/javascript/controllers/goal_kind_controller.js, app/views/goals/_form.html.erb, app/views/goals/new.html.erb, app/views/goals/show.html.erb, app/components/goals/*, config/locales/views/goals/*, test/controllers/goals_controller_test.rb	The form supports goal kinds and reserve target-date behavior. Reserve-funded, depleted, shortfall, completion, and celebration states receive dedicated presentation and copy.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to aa599

The PR adds goal outflow attribution and is mergeable, with explicit owner awareness that newly added validation messages are only localized for English and French, so other locales may temporarily display English text.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant GoalsController
  participant GoalWithdrawalDetector
  participant Transaction
  participant Goal
  User->>GoalsController: Request goal page
  GoalsController->>GoalWithdrawalDetector: Load unattributed outflows
  GoalWithdrawalDetector->>Transaction: Query linked-account outflows
  Transaction-->>GoalWithdrawalDetector: Return candidate entries
  GoalWithdrawalDetector-->>GoalsController: Return outflows
  GoalsController-->>User: Render attribution actions
  User->>GoalsController: Submit consumption
  GoalsController->>Goal: Consume amount
  Goal->>Transaction: Mark attributed transaction
  Goal-->>GoalsController: Update goal and earmarks
  GoalsController-->>User: Redirect with result

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Inline comments:
In `@app/controllers/goals_controller.rb`:
- Around line 169-173: Update the success notice in the goal consumption action
to use the resolved amount variable rather than params[:amount]. Format that
amount using the goal currency before interpolating it into the
goals.consume.success translation, preserving the existing transaction and
direct-amount handling.
- Around line 168-172: Update Goal#consume! to reject paused, completed, and
archived goals before changing consumed_amount or allocations, while preserving
consumption for maintained goals. Return no detector candidates for inactive
goals, add a localized refusal message, and cover each inactive lifecycle state
in tests.

In `@app/models/goal.rb`:
- Around line 362-388: Update consume! to lock the goal row and re-read
consumed_amount inside the transaction before validating exceeds_target and
incrementing it. Base both the limit check and update! value on this locked,
current amount while preserving the existing link locking and allocation
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• app/models/goal/withdrawal_detector.rb
• app/models/goal_account.rb
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• config/routes.rb
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• db/schema.rb
• test/controllers/goals_controller_test.rb
• test/fixtures/goal_accounts.yml
• test/models/assistant/function/create_goal_test.rb
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One change on this branch that no thread asked for, flagged here because it is security-relevant and easy to miss in the diff.

consumption_account resolved the account behind an attributed outflow through Current.family.accounts, while the named-account path was moved to Current.user.accessible_accounts on #3176. That left the hole open on this branch through the other door: a family member attributing an outflow on a private account they cannot see would have its earmark reduced, and learn the account exists from the figures that moved.

Both paths now resolve through accessible_accounts, and an id that does not resolve is refused rather than falling through to nil.

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test/models/goal_test.rb (1)

1000-1018: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Move this test above the private keyword.

The test block sits after private at line 973 and is indented with the private helpers. It still runs, because the test DSL registers the block with define_method, which ignores Ruby visibility. The placement is still misleading: every other test in this file is above private, so a reader can conclude this one is dead, and it can be removed together with the helpers.

Move the block to just after the last test at line 971, at 2-space indentation.

Based on learnings that private placed before test "..." do blocks is not a bug, because the test helper defines the method with define_method and bypasses Ruby private visibility.

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test/models/goal_account_test.rb (1)

199-207: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the lock order with a Mocha sequence.

Goal#whole_account_conflicts_on locks ids.sort.each, but the current expectations allow either call order. Add one shared sequence with in_sequence to make descending-order regressions fail.

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both lock_whole_account_claims! expectations with in_sequence, requiring the ids
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In `@app/components/goals/lifecycle_panel_component.html.erb`:
- Around line 113-126: Replace the raw SVG legend lines in the lifecycle panel
legend with the appropriate existing Design System primitive, or introduce a
reusable primitive for these line styles while preserving the saved, projection,
and required visual variants. Update the legend container’s text-[11px] class to
a suitable scale token such as text-xs when the visual requirement remains
satisfied.

In `@app/models/goal.rb`:
- Around line 1066-1082: Add localized messages for kind_locked_once_consumed
and target_must_cover_what_was_consumed in every goal locale currently missing
them, matching the existing en.yml/fr.yml keys and each locale’s wording
conventions.

In `@test/components/goals/lifecycle_panel_component_test.rb`:
- Around line 56-73: Reindent the test helper methods pot, funded_goal,
component_for, and panel_for, including their bodies and continuations, from
four spaces to the project-standard two-space Ruby indentation.

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In `@test/models/goal_account_test.rb`:
- Around line 199-207: Update the test for Goal#whole_account_conflicts_on to
create one shared Mocha sequence and attach both lock_whole_account_claims!
expectations with in_sequence, requiring the ids to be locked in descending
order.

In `@test/models/goal_test.rb`:
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DS Drift Patrol — 1 finding

Rule 5 — i18n bypass

• app/views/goals/_unattributed_outflows.html.erb — the · separator between the entry date and account name is a bare literal, not wrapped in t():

  <%= l(entry.date, format: :long) %> · <%= entry.account.name %>

  This is the same hardcoded-separator pattern flagged repeatedly elsewhere in this repo (Add Auto Match settings, review page, and opt-in confirmation #3034, Feature/emi installment plans #3054, and three merged commits this week — see the ds-drift tracking issue). Suggested fix: a shared locale key (e.g. shared.separator) or a small helper, since this keeps recurring across unrelated PRs.

Everything else in this PR's in-scope surface (app/views/goals/consume.html.erb, app/views/goals/show.html.erb) is clean — DS::Dialog, DS::Select, DS::Button used correctly, functional color tokens throughout.

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[buzzromain]

Fixed — and you were right that the mechanism already exists: shared.dot_separator is defined in every shipped locale and already used three times in the goals views (goals/index.html.erb twice, goals/_status_callout.html.erb). This was drift, not a gap.

Worth noting what the existing uses do that the literal did not: they wrap the separator in aria-hidden="true". The · is decorative, and a screen reader was reading it out between the date and the account name. The fix follows that shape rather than only the t() call.

On the recurrence you flag — I checked the rest of the goals surface and there are six more hardcoded ·, all in files this PR does not touch and all already on main:

• app/views/goals/_pending_pledge_banner.html.erb
• app/views/goals/index.html.erb (a parts.join(" · "))
• app/views/goals/show.html.erb (a safe_join delimiter)
• app/views/goals/_form.html.erb
• app/components/goals/card_component.html.erb
• app/components/goals/funding_accounts_breakdown_component.html.erb

I deliberately left them. show.html.erb is in this PR's diff, but the separator line is pre-existing and untouched by it — folding an unrelated cleanup into a feature PR makes the diff harder to review for no gain, and the other five are in files this PR does not open at all.

Two of those are join delimiters rather than inline markup, so they need slightly different handling than a <span aria-hidden>, which is another reason to do them together rather than one at a time. Happy to send that as its own PR across the goals surface if a maintainer wants it — it would close the recurrence properly rather than one file per unrelated PR.