Generating the payment request form using Ruby

Created by Richard Moore, Modified on Wed, 12 Apr, 2023 at 12:02 PM by Richard Moore

To generate the payment request form using Ruby on Rails please see the code below:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd" >
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <title>
      Hosted Checkout Payment Form Example - Ruby on Rails
    </title>
  </head>
  <body>

  <h1>
    Hosted Checkout Payment Form Example - Ruby on Rails
  </h1>
  <p>
    Disclaimer: this sample program is meant for guidance. There are no warranties about its functionality.
  </p>
  <p>
    Click the "Pay" button to submit a test request to https://checkout.e-xact.com/pay.
  </p>

  <%= form_tag "https://checkout.e-xact.com/pay", :method=>:post %>
  <%
     # The payment data.
     x_amount = "595.99"
     x_login = "WSP-#####-##"  #  Take from Payment Page ID in Payment Pages interface
     transaction_key = "########################" # Take from Payment Pages configuration interface
     x_currency_code = "USD" #  Needs to agree with the currency of the payment page
     x_fp_sequence = ((rand*100000).to_i + 2000).to_s
     x_fp_timestamp = Time.now.to_i.to_s # needs to be in UTC. Make sure webserver produces UTC
     
     # The values that contribute to x_fp_hash
     hmac_data = "#{x_login}^#{x_fp_sequence}^#{x_fp_timestamp}^#{x_amount}^#{x_currency_code}"

     # calculate HMAC-SHA1
     x_fp_hash = OpenSSL::HMAC.hexdigest(OpenSSL::Digest::Digest.new("sha1"),transaction_key, hmac_data)

     # or, to calculate HMAC-MD5, comment out above and uncomment below
     #x_fp_hash = OpenSSL::HMAC.hexdigest(OpenSSL::Digest::Digest.new("md5"),transaction_key, hmac_data)
  %>

  <%= hidden_field_tag 'x_amount', x_amount %>
  <%= hidden_field_tag 'x_login', x_login %>
  <%= hidden_field_tag 'x_fp_sequence', x_fp_sequence %>
  <%= hidden_field_tag :x_fp_timestamp, x_fp_timestamp %>
  <%= hidden_field_tag :x_currency_code, x_currency_code %>
  <%= hidden_field_tag :x_fp_hash, x_fp_hash %>
  <%= hidden_field_tag :x_show_form, "PAYMENT_FORM" %>
  <%= hidden_field_tag :x_test_request, "TRUE" %>
  <%= hidden_field_tag :x_line_item, "1<|>Photo Plus Camera<|>Photo Plus Camera, 1 Year Warranty<|>1<|>595.99<|>NO" %>
  <%= submit_tag  "Pay with E-xact Transactions" %>
  </form>

<body>
</html>

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