CreditCardDetector

Gem provides credit card number validator and type detector.

It checks whether or not a given number actually falls within the ranges of possible numbers for given brands and provides an optional Luhn check.

More info about card BIN numbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_card_number

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'credit_card_detector'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install credit_card_detector

Usage

The following issuing institutes are accepted:

Name Key
American Express :amex
China UnionPay :unionpay
Dankort :dankort
Diners Club :diners
Elo :elo
Discover :discover
Hipercard :hipercard
JCB :jcb
Maestro :maestro
MasterCard :mastercard
MIR :mir
Rupay :rupay
Solo :solo
Switch :switch
Visa :visa

Examples

    number = "4111111111111111"
    detector = CreditCardDetector::Detector.new(number)
    detector.brand # Visa brand
    detector.brand_name # Visa
    detector.valid?(:mastercard, :maestro) #false
    detector.valid?(:visa, :mastercard) #true

Check luhn

    CreditCardDetector::Detector.new(number).valid_luhn?

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request

Original version

credit_card_validations - provides more extended API, but dependes on activemodel and activesupport.