GNU Taler payment API for Ruby

The Taler library let's you interact with a Taler merchant backend API to take payments.

Installation

gem install taler # or
bundle add taler

Usage

backend_url = "https://backend.demo.taler.net/instances/sandbox"
backend_password = "sandbox"

order = Taler::Order.new(backend_url:, password:)
order.create(
  amount: "KUDOS:4",
  summary: "Order total",
  fulfillment_message: "Thank you!"
)

puts "Pay at: #{order.status_url}"

while order.fetch("order_status") == "unpaid"
  sleep 1
  order.reload
end

if order.fetch("order_status") == "paid"
  puts "Great. All paid."
else
  puts "Sorry, the order is #{order.fetch("order_status")}. Try again."
end

Read more in the official documentation:

• https://rubydoc.info/gems/taler

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/openfoodfoundation/taler-ruby.