class ActiveMerchant::Billing::CreditCard

A CreditCard object represents a physical credit card, and is capable of validating the various data associated with these.

At the moment, the following credit card types are supported:

For testing purposes, use the ‘bogus’ credit card brand. This skips the vast majority of validations, allowing you to focus on your core concerns until you’re ready to be more concerned with the details of particular credit cards or your gateway.

Testing With CreditCard

Often when testing we don’t care about the particulars of a given card brand. When using the ‘test’ mode in your {Gateway}, there are six different valid card numbers: 1, 2, 3, ‘success’, ‘fail’, and ‘error’.

For details, see {CreditCardMethods::ClassMethods#valid_number?}

Example Usage

cc = CreditCard.new(
  :first_name => 'Steve',
  :last_name  => 'Smith',
  :month      => '9',
  :year       => '2010',
  :brand      => 'visa',
  :number     => '4242424242424242'
)

cc.validate # => {}
cc.display_number # => XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-4242

Attributes

first_name[RW]

Returns or sets the first name of the card holder.

@return [String]

issue_number[RW]
last_name[RW]

Returns or sets the last name of the card holder.

@return [String]

month[R]

Returns or sets the expiry month for the card.

@return [Integer]

number[R]

Returns or sets the credit card number.

@return [String]

start_month[R]

Required for Switch / Solo cards

start_year[R]

Required for Switch / Solo cards

track_data[RW]

Returns or sets the track data for the card

@return [String]

verification_value[RW]

Returns or sets the card verification value.

This attribute is optional but recommended. The verification value is a card security code. If provided, the gateway will attempt to validate the value.

@return [String] the verification value

year[R]

Returns or sets the expiry year for the card.

@return [Integer]

Public Class Methods

requires_verification_value?() click to toggle source
# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 242
def self.requires_verification_value?
  require_verification_value
end

Public Instance Methods

brand() click to toggle source

Returns or sets the credit card brand.

Valid card types are

  • +‘visa’+

  • +‘master’+

  • +‘discover’+

  • +‘american_express’+

  • +‘diners_club’+

  • +‘jcb’+

  • +‘switch’+

  • +‘solo’+

  • +‘dankort’+

  • +‘maestro’+

  • +‘forbrugsforeningen’+

  • +‘laser’+

Or, if you wish to test your implementation, +‘bogus’+.

@return (String) the credit card brand

# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 94
def brand
  if !defined?(@brand) || empty?(@brand)
    self.class.brand?(number)
  else
    @brand
  end
end
brand=(value) click to toggle source
# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 102
def brand=(value)
  value = value && value.to_s.dup
  @brand = (value.respond_to?(:downcase) ? value.downcase : value)
end
display_number() click to toggle source

Returns a display-friendly version of the card number.

All but the last 4 numbers are replaced with an “X”, and hyphens are inserted in order to improve legibility.

@example

credit_card = CreditCard.new(:number => "2132542376824338")
credit_card.display_number  # "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-4338"

@return [String] a display-friendly version of the card number

# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 214
def display_number
  self.class.mask(number)
end
expired?() click to toggle source

Returns whether the credit card has expired.

@return true if the card has expired, false otherwise

# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 155
def expired?
  expiry_date.expired?
end
expiry_date() click to toggle source

Provides proxy access to an expiry date object

@return [ExpiryDate]

# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 148
def expiry_date
  ExpiryDate.new(@month, @year)
end
first_digits() click to toggle source
# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 218
def first_digits
  self.class.first_digits(number)
end
first_name?() click to toggle source

Returns whether the first_name attribute has been set.

# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 165
def first_name?
  first_name.present?
end
last_digits() click to toggle source
# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 222
def last_digits
  self.class.last_digits(number)
end
last_name?() click to toggle source

Returns whether the last_name attribute has been set.

# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 170
def last_name?
  last_name.present?
end
name() click to toggle source

Returns the full name of the card holder.

@return [String] the full name of the card holder

# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 177
def name
  [first_name, last_name].compact.join(' ')
end
name=(full_name) click to toggle source
# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 181
def name=(full_name)
  names = full_name.split
  self.last_name  = names.pop
  self.first_name = names.join(" ")
end
name?() click to toggle source

Returns whether either the first_name or the last_name attributes has been set.

# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 160
def name?
  first_name? || last_name?
end
number=(value) click to toggle source
# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 60
def number=(value)
  @number = (empty?(value) ? value : value.to_s.gsub(/[^\d]/, ""))
end
type() click to toggle source
# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 135
def type
  ActiveMerchant.deprecated "CreditCard#type is deprecated and will be removed from a future release of ActiveMerchant. Please use CreditCard#brand instead."
  brand
end
type=(value) click to toggle source
# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 140
def type=(value)
  ActiveMerchant.deprecated "CreditCard#type is deprecated and will be removed from a future release of ActiveMerchant. Please use CreditCard#brand instead."
  self.brand = value
end
validate() click to toggle source

Validates the credit card details.

Any validation errors are added to the {#errors} attribute.

# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 229
def validate
  errors = validate_essential_attributes + validate_verification_value

  # Bogus card is pretty much for testing purposes. Lets just skip these extra tests if its used
  return errors_hash(errors) if brand == 'bogus'

  errors_hash(
    errors +
    validate_card_brand_and_number +
    validate_switch_or_solo_attributes
  )
end
verification_value?() click to toggle source
# File lib/active_merchant/billing/credit_card.rb, line 200
def verification_value?
  !verification_value.blank?
end