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Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.

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Active Merchant

This library is supposed to aid in creating e-commerce software in Ruby. In the future we want to support all “good” payment gateways.

This library is the foundation of commerce for www.shopify.com.

Please visit the ActiveMerchant homepage for more resources, tutorials and other information about this project.

But FIRST - Yardstick things

We’re in the unfortunate circumstance of maintaining a fork of this gem for reasons. This was a decision made before us, and we inherit the sins of the past. It’s gotten to the point where we need some actual version management. So here it goes. Our version always increments the 4th version place. i.e. If we’ve based our version on 1.5.1 of the upstream, then our version is 1.5.1.1, and increments that 4th place for every new version we need (1.5.1.2, 1.5.1.3) until we must merge in the upstream for other initiatives like upgrading Rails. These tags are what we can use to reference them in our Gemfile and maintain some semblence of normalcy for upgrade paths.

Supported Direct Payment Gateways

The ActiveMerchant Wiki contains a table of features supported by each gateway.

Supported Offsite Payment Gateways

Download

Currently this library is available with git from:

git://github.com/Shopify/active_merchant.git

Installation

From Git

You can check out the latest source from git:

> git pull git://github.com/Shopify/active_merchant.git

As a Rails plugin

ActiveMerchant includes an init.rb file. This means that Rails will automatically load ActiveMerchant on startup. Run the following command from the root directory of your Rails project to install ActiveMerchant as a Rails plugin:

> ./script/plugin install git://github.com/Shopify/active_merchant.git

From Ruby Gems

Installation from RubyGems

> gem install activemerchant

Sample Usage

require 'rubygems'
require 'active_merchant'

# Use the TrustCommerce test servers
ActiveMerchant::Billing::Base.mode = :test

# ActiveMerchant accepts all amounts as Integer values in cents
# $10.00
amount = 1000

# The card verification value is also known as CVV2, CVC2, or CID
credit_card = ActiveMerchant::Billing::CreditCard.new(
                :first_name         => 'Bob',
                :last_name          => 'Bobsen',
                :number             => '4242424242424242',
                :month              => '8',
                :year               => '2012',
                :verification_value => '123'
              )

# Validating the card automatically detects the card type
if credit_card.valid?

  # Create a gateway object for the TrustCommerce service
  gateway = ActiveMerchant::Billing::TrustCommerceGateway.new(
              :login => 'TestMerchant',
              :password => 'password'
            )

  # Authorize for the amount
  response = gateway.purchase(amount, credit_card)

  if response.success?
    puts "Successfully charged $#{sprintf("%.2f", amount / 100)} to the credit card #{credit_card.display_number}"
  else
    raise StandardError, response.message
  end
end

Contributing

Please see the ActiveMerchant Guide to Contributing for information on adding a new gateway to ActiveMerchant.

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Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.

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