From: Lucas Carlson <lucas@...>
Date: 2005-01-16T16:43:10+09:00
Subject: Pleased to announce CreditCard

I am pleased to announce a new RubyForge project I call CreditCard ( 
http://rubyforge.org/projects/creditcard/ ). This is a small hint of 
what is to come, a full payment processing gateway for Ruby. To try it 
out, type:

gem install creditcard

These subroutines tell you whether a credit card number is 
self-consistent using known algorithms for credit card numbers. All 
non-integer values are removed from the string before parsing so that 
you don�t have to worry about the format of the string.

Here are some example uses.

"5276 4400 6542 1319".creditcard?
       => true

  puts 5276440065421319.creditcard_type
       => "mastercard"

  "5276440065421319".creditcard? "visa"
       => false

  "5276-4400-6542-1319".creditcard? "mastercard"
       => true

-Lucas
http://www.rufy.com/