I'm trying to use Stripe for payments in my rails app. I remember at one internship I had, we used the active merchant gem to abstract the process by using gateways. Although, at the internship, we used Authorize.net. We didn't use Stripe. For this particular application, I would like to use Stripe and ActiveMerchant together.
Looking at the documentation on the Active Merchant GitHub page, I found that I could connect to Stripe using the StripeGateway provided by the Active Merchant gem. This is how I did it:
ActiveMerchant::Billing::Base.mode = :test # Create a new credit card object credit_card = ActiveMerchant::Billing::CreditCard.new( :number => '4242424242424242', :month => '8', :year => '2022', :first_name => 'Tobias', :last_name => 'Luetke', :verification_value => '123' ) if credit_card.valid? gateway = ActiveMerchant::Billing::StripeGateway.new( login: Rails.application.credentials.development[:stripe_private_key] ) # Authorize for $10 dollars (1000 cents) response = gateway.authorize(1000, credit_card) if response.success? # Capture the money gateway.capture(1000, response.authorization) else raise StandardError, response.message end end However, this is a problem. Whenever I run this, I get a strange error:
StandardError (Sending credit card numbers directly to the Stripe API is generally unsafe. We suggest you use test tokens that map to the test card you are using, see https://stripe.com/docs/testing.) I understand that this is a security issue, but I don't understand how to ago about fixing it using Active Merchant. I tried using Stripe's documentation for ruby on rails, but the form was very simple. It only had a credit card number, expiration data, and CVC entry, as well as email. But i need a billing address as well. This is my reasoning for using Active Merchant. It's very simple to use and abstracts a lot of the fluff out while still being able to create custom forms. But, I keep getting this error here with Stripe, and I don't know how to fix it.
Any help is appreciated!
