Welcome to Payment

Payment is used to process credit cards and electronic cash through merchant accounts.

To choose a gateway, require 'payment/gateway_name'. For example, if you want to use Authorize.net, do a require 'payment/authorize_net'. If you would like to use multiple gateways in the same code, simply do a require 'payment' and it will grab each gateway's code for you.

Payment was inspired by and has borrowed much of its infrastructure from the Business::OnlinePayment Perl module (http://search.cpan.org/~jasonk/Business-OnlinePayment-2.01/OnlinePayment.pm).

If you would like to loosely check the validity of a credit card without using a merchant account, look at the CreditCard module (http://rubyforge.org/projects/creditcard/).

Example

require 'payment/authorize_net'

transaction = Payment::AuthorizeNet.new (
                  :login       => 'username',
                  :password    => 'password',
                  :amount      => '49.95',
                  :card_number => '4012888818888',
                  :expiration  => '03/10',
                  :first_name  => 'John',
                  :last_name   => 'Doe'
                 )
begin
  transaction.submit
  puts "Card processed successfully: #{transaction.authorization}"
rescue
  puts "Card was rejected: #{transaction.error_message}"
end

To set default values, setup a file called .payment.yml in the home directory of the user who will be using this library. An example file would be:

username: my_account
transaction_key: my_trans_key

That way there is no need to keep sensitive information in your application's code itself. To specify an alternative configuration file, add a :prefs => '/path/to/file.yml' to the initialization parameters.

Currently Supported Gateways

Upcoming Gateways

Planned Support for the Following Gateways

About

Author

Lucas Carlson (mailto:[email protected])

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2005 Lucas Carlson

License

Distributes under the same terms as Ruby