how to implement a payment system in rails

Question

I am new to the rails world and am in the process of setting up a small rails app for a client. One of the requirements is that the user enters their credit card which gets charged for a specified amount.

I haven't had much experience with payment systems. I believe active merchant gem can be used for this purpose but how does actually charging the card work out and for testing purpose will I be able to charge a dummy account? From your experience, is it safe to go with a provider like paypal?

Answer 1

You should checkout ActiveMerchant.

FYI Peepcode has a post on this:

http://peepcode.com/products/activemerchant-pdf