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:

$ sudo gem install 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