Mpesa

⚠️ This gem is under development and still at early stages.

The Mpesa Ruby library provides access to the various APIs (https://developer.safaricom.co.ke/apis-explorer) M-PESA offers for developers working on applications written in Ruby.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mpesa-ruby'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install mpesa-ruby

Configuration

The library needs to be configured with your M-PESA application's Consumer Key and Consumer Secret key which is available in your M-PESA Apps Dashboard. Click on your App and navigate to the keys tab.

Set consumer_key and consumer_secret to their respective values:

require "mpesa-ruby"


Mpesa.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = 'mYcOnSuMeRk3Y'
  config.consumer_secret = 'MyVery5ecureConsumerS3cr3t'

  # Optional
  config.environment = :live # Defaults to :sandbox

  # STK Push configurations
  config.passkey = 'MyVeryS3cr3tP@ssk3y' # Required for STK Push live environment, defaults to the sandbox passkey for sandbox environment
end

# Make STK Push Request (Paybill)
Mpesa.stk_push({
  business_short_code: 174379,
  transaction_type: Mpesa::CUSTOMER_PAYBILL_ONLINE,
  amount: 1,
  party_a: 254708374149,
  party_b: 174379,
  phone_number: 254708374149,
  callback_url: "https://mydomain.com/path",
  account_reference: "CompanyXLTD",
  transaction_desc: "Payment of X"
})

# Make STK Push Request (Buy Goods and Services)
Mpesa.stk_push({
  business_short_code: 174379,
  transaction_type: Mpesa::CUSTOMER_BUY_GOODS_ONLINE,
  amount: 1,
  party_a: 254708374149,
  party_b: 174379,
  phone_number: 254708374149,
  callback_url: "https://mydomain.com/path",
  account_reference: "CompanyXLTD",
  transaction_desc: "Payment of X"
})

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/FawazFarid/mpesa-ruby.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.