PhonyRails

(In its early days :) called PhonyNumber)

This Gem adds useful methods to your Rails app to validate, display and save phone numbers. It uses the super awesome Phony gem (https://github.com/floere/phony).

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'phony_rails'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install phony_rails

Usage

Normalization / ActiveRecord Extension

In your model add:

class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base

  # Normalizes the attribute itself before 
  phony_normalize :phone_number, :default_country_code => 'US'validation

  # Normalizes attribute before validation and saves into other attribute
  phony_normalize :phone_number, :as => :phone_number_normalized_version, :default_country_code => 'US' 

  # Creates method normalized_fax_number that returns the normalized version of fax_number
  phony_normalized_method :fax_number
end

The :default_country_code options is used to specify a country_code when normalizing.

PhonyRails will also check your model for a country_code method to use when normalizing the number. So '070-12341234' with country_code 'NL' will get normalized to '317012341234'.

Validation

In your model use the Phony.plausible method to validate an attribute:

validates :phone_number, :phony_plausible => true

or the helper method:

validates_plausible_phone :phone_number

this method use other validators under the hood to provide:

• presence validation using ActiveModel::Validations::PresenceValidator
• format validation using ActiveModel::Validations::FormatValidator

so we can use:

validates_plausible_phone :phone_number, :presence => true
validates_plausible_phone :phone_number, :with => /^\+\d+/
validates_plausible_phone :phone_number, :without => /^\+\d+/
validates_plausible_phone :phone_number, :presence => true, :with => /^\+\d+/

the i18n key is :improbable_phone

Display / Views

In your views use:

<%= "some number string variable".phony_formatted(:format => :international, :spaces => '-') %>

Find by normalized number

Say you want to find a record by a phone number. Best is to normalize user input and compare to an attribute stored in the db.

Home.find_by_normalized_phone_number(PhonyRails.normalize_number(params[:phone_number]))

Changelog

0.1.8

• Improved validation methods by ddidier.

0.1.6

• Added :as option to phony_normalize.

0.1.5

• some tests and a helper method by ddidier.

0.1.2

• Using countries gem as suggested by brutuscat.
• Fixes bugs mentioned by ddidier.

0.1.0

• Added specs.

0.0.10

• Same fix as 0.0.9 but for phony_formatted method.

0.0.9

• Fix for using same options Hash for all models.

0.0.8

• Improved number cleaning not to remove '+' and leading 0's. Now works with national numbers starting with 0 followed by country_code. Eg. 032 in BE.

0.0.7

• Fixed problem with '+' number

0.0.6

• Fixed problem with '070-4157134' being parsed as US number

TODO

• Make this work: Home.find_by_normalized_phone_number(Home.normalize_number(params[:phone_number])) So we use Home.normalize_number instead of PhonyRails.normalize_number. This way we can use the same default_country_code.
• Make country_code method configurable.

Contributing

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