Paypal NVP

Paypal NVP allow to connect your Ruby on Rails application to the Paypal NVP API.

Installation

The recommended way is that you get the gem:

  $ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com (you only have to do this once)
  $ sudo gem install solisoft-paypal_nvp

PaypalNVP need a paypal.yml file in your config directory.

  # All those fields are mandatory

  sandbox:
    url:  "https://api-3t.sandbox.paypal.com/nvp"
    user: "o.bonn_1237393081_biz_api1.solisoft.net"
    pass: "1237393093"
    cert:  "AU2Yv5COwWPCfeYLv34Z766F-gfNAzX6LaQE6VZkHMRq35Gmite-bMXu"

  live:
    url:  "https://api-3t.paypal.com/nvp"
    user: "o.bonn_1237393081_biz_api1.solisoft.net"
    pass: "1237393093"
    cert:  "AU2Yv5COwWPCfeYLv34Z766F-gfNAzX6LaQE6VZkHMRq35Gmite-bMXu"

Example usage

  p = PaypalNVP.new(true) # true mean "use sandbox"
  data = {
    :method => "MyPaypalMethod",
    :amt => 55
    # other params needed
  }
  result = p.call_paypal(data) # will return a hash
  puts result["ACK"] # Success