paypal gem multiple accounts ruby on rails

Question

I'm using the paypal-sdk-merchant gem. So far I have set one merchant account with this command:

PayPal::SDK.configure(
        :mode      => "sandbox",
        :app_id    => "APP-sdfgjkl",
        :username  => "lprieto-facilitator_api1.hasu.cl",
        :password  => "Z7XGVDCHBJN",
        :signature => "AFcWxV21C7fd0v3bYYYRCpSSRlXDCFVGBHLBRTnmAzXxHddoa5e",
        :sandbox_email_address => "lprieto-facilitator_api1.hasu.cl")

and then create a payment with

api         = PayPal::SDK::Merchant::API.new

This have work perfectly so far but now I have to change the paypal account according to the country the person is buying from. If I'm constantly changing the PayPal::SDK.configure will there be any consistence problems??

For example, if a person in Brasil access and the configuration is change. Then a person in Chile access and the configuration is change. After, the brasilian pays. Will it have the brasilian configuration or the chilean one?

What would you recommend for having multiple Paypal accounts in a ruby on rails app?

Thank you in advance.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '15 at 20:23

I recommend taking a look at https://github.com/paypal/PayPal-Ruby-SDK because this gem doesn't support rails 4 and will be deprecated.

As for your problem at hand: Seeing the API, you would indeed need to call PayPal::SDK.configure() for each different type of merchant/country. You can create a YML config file for this something like config/paypal.yml:

chile:
  mode: sandbox
  app_id: APP-123
  username: user1
  password: pass1
  signature: ABCDEF
  sandbox_email_address: test@example.com

brasil:
  mode: sandbox
  app_id: APP-456
  username: user2
  password: pass2
  signature: GHIJKL
  sandbox_email_address: test2@example.com

and use this in your app like:

@api_chile = PayPal::SDK::Merchant::API.new(:chile)
@api_brasil = PayPal::SDK::Merchant::API.new(:brasil)

Hope this helps!

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