stripe-ruby VS Active Merchant

Compare stripe-ruby vs Active Merchant and see what are their differences.

stripe-ruby

Ruby library for the Stripe API. (by stripe)
E-Commerce and Payments Stripe stripe-sdk
Source Code
stripe.com
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Active Merchant

Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways. (by activemerchant)
E-Commerce and Payments
Source Code
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stripe-ruby Active Merchant
5 3
1,900 4,505
1.1% 0.3%
9.0 9.4
3 days ago 2 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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stripe-ruby

Posts with mentions or reviews of stripe-ruby. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-14.
  • Stripe Connect onboarding with Ruby on Rails
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Apr 2023
    Use the stripe-ruby SDK to interact with the Stripe API.
  • August Stripe Developer Digest
    9 projects | dev.to | 31 Aug 2022
    New API version released: Version 2022-08-01 of the Stripe API has been released along with major version upgrades to all official client libraries, namely Dotnet, Go, Java, PHP, Node, Python, and Ruby. Read more about breaking changes in the API upgrades section and how to upgrade.
  • Scalable developer video production
    7 projects | dev.to | 2 Jun 2021
    Stripe has seven main client libraries — Ruby, PHP, Python, Node, .NET, Go, and Java — and we wanted to give junior developers a foundation of broadly applicable knowledge to help them in all of their Stripe development going forward.
  • 🎥 New developer foundations videos for our client libraries
    8 projects | dev.to | 22 Apr 2021
    Thank you to our top open-source contributors this month: joeltaylor, ybiquitous, gogainda (stripe-ruby); masterjus (stripe-php); westy92, msternow (stripe-android); ees37 (stripe-go); Fonata (stripe-cli); rdsedmundo (stripe-node); hibariya (stripe-samples); risentveber, vinistock, jaredbeck, ryanwilsonperkin, anandvc, RyanBrushett, paracycle (sorbet).
  • Any examples of good gem wrappers around external APIs?
    8 projects | /r/ruby | 20 Apr 2021
    Surprised nobody's mentioned https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ruby yet.

Active Merchant

Posts with mentions or reviews of Active Merchant. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.
  • How easy is ruby to learn from zero experience coding
    3 projects | /r/ruby | 4 Apr 2023
    For example, their theme templates use Liquid, which is a html templating system for Ruby. Activemerchant also was released by Shopify, and it provides a interface to major payment providers like PayPal.
  • Help HN: Stripe shutting us down with 48 hours notice on a holiday skeleton crew
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2021
    For ruby there is a nice library from Shopify offering a huge number of payment gateway integrations: https://github.com/activemerchant/active_merchant
  • Top reasons to love Ruby on Rails
    1 project | dev.to | 26 Dec 2020
    Administrate – for building and customizing admin panels; became successful because of its ease for users without a technical background. Money-Rails – for E-commerce solutions; enables creating monetary values, additional entry fields, and money classes. MetaTags – for SEO management, as the name suggests. Draper – for object-oriented programming; helps monitor and improve each object’s behavior. Dotenv – for safe loading environment variables to protect private data. ElasticSearch – to implement searches, to index catalogs and prices, to store purchases, and to gather statistics. Sidekiq – for storing, monitoring, and managing background jobs. Fog – for uploading and storing files via cloud services. Unicorn – for deploying. Active Merchant – for integrating payments.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing stripe-ruby and Active Merchant you can also consider the following projects:

Solidus - 🛒 Solidus, the open-source eCommerce framework for industry trailblazers.

Spree Commerce - A headless open source e-commerce platform for global brands

Payola

Shoppe - The tryshoppe.com website repository

Paypal Merchant SDK

Braintree - Braintree Ruby library

Koudoku - Robust subscription support for Rails with Stripe.

credit_card_validations - :credit_card: ruby gem for validating credit card numbers, generating valid numbers, luhn checks

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