PhonyRails

(In its early days :) called PhonyNumber)

This small Gem adds useful methods to your Rails app to validate, display and save phone numbers. It uses the super awesome Phony gem (https://github.com/floere/phony).

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'phony_rails'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install phony_rails

Usage

Normalization / Model Usage

For ActiveRecord, in your model add:

class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  # Normalizes the attribute itself before validation
  phony_normalize :phone_number, :default_country_code => 'US'

  # Normalizes attribute before validation and saves into other attribute
  phony_normalize :phone_number, :as => :phone_number_normalized_version, :default_country_code => 'US'

  # Creates method normalized_fax_number that returns the normalized version of fax_number
  phony_normalized_method :fax_number
end

For Mongoid, in keeping with Mongoid plug-in conventions you must include the Mongoid::Phony module:

class SomeModel
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Mongoid::Phony

  # methods are same as ActiveRecord usage
end

The :default_country_code options is used to specify a country_code when normalizing.

PhonyRails will also check your model for a country_code method to use when normalizing the number. So '070-12341234' with country_code 'NL' will get normalized to '317012341234'.

You can also do-it-yourself and call:

# Options:
#   :country_code => The country code we should use (forced).
#   :default_country_code => Some fallback code (eg. 'NL') that can be used as default (comes from phony_normalize_numbers method).

PhonyRails.normalize_number('some number', :country_code => 'NL')

PhonyRails.normalize_number('+4790909090', :country_code => 'SE') # => '464790909090' (forced to +46)
PhonyRails.normalize_number('+4790909090', :default_country_code => 'SE') # => '4790909090' (still +47 so not changed)

Validation

In your model use the Phony.plausible method to validate an attribute:

validates :phone_number, :phony_plausible => true

or the helper method:

validates_plausible_phone :phone_number

this method use other validators under the hood to provide:

• presence validation using ActiveModel::Validations::PresenceValidator
• format validation using ActiveModel::Validations::FormatValidator

so we can use:

validates_plausible_phone :phone_number, :presence => true
validates_plausible_phone :phone_number, :with => /^\+\d+/
validates_plausible_phone :phone_number, :without => /^\+\d+/
validates_plausible_phone :phone_number, :presence => true, :with => /^\+\d+/

the i18n key is :improbable_phone

You can also validate if a number has the correct country number:

validates_plausible_phone :phone_number, :country_number => '61'

or correct country code:

validates_plausible_phone :phone_number, :country_code => 'AU'

Display / Views

In your views use:

<%= "311012341234".phony_formatted(:format => :international, :spaces => '-') %>
<%= "+31-10-12341234".phony_formatted(:format => :international, :spaces => '-') %>
<%= "+31(0)1012341234".phony_formatted(:format => :international, :spaces => '-') %>

To first normalize the String to a certain country use:

<%= "010-12341234".phony_formatted(:normalize => :NL, :format => :international, :spaces => '-') %>

To return nil when a number is not valid:

"123".phony_formatted(:strict => true) # => nil

You can also use the bang method (phony_formatted!):

number = "010-12341234"
number.phony_formatted!(:normalize => :NL, :format => :international)
number # => "+31 10 123 41234"

Find by normalized number

Say you want to find a record by a phone number. Best is to normalize user input and compare to an attribute stored in the db.

Home.find_by_normalized_phone_number(PhonyRails.normalize_number(params[:phone_number]))

Changelog

0.6.0

• Support for Phony 2.1 by @pjg.

0.5.0

• Added :strict option to String#phony_formatted.

0.4.2

• Added @fareastside validation for country_code.

0.4.0/0.4.1

• Better Mongoid support by @johnnyshields.

0.3.0

• Now ability to force change a country_code. See: joost#23 (comment)

0.2.1

• Better error handling by @k4nar.

0.1.12

• Further loosened gemspec dependencies.

0.1.11

• Better gemspec dependency versions by @rjhaveri.

0.1.10

• Changes from henning-koch.
• Some pending fixes.

0.1.8

• Improved validation methods by @ddidier.

0.1.6

• Added :as option to phony_normalize.

0.1.5

• some tests and a helper method by @ddidier.

0.1.2

• Using countries gem as suggested by @brutuscat.
• Fixes bugs mentioned by @ddidier.

0.1.0

• Added specs.

0.0.10

• Same fix as 0.0.9 but for phony_formatted method.

0.0.9

• Fix for using same options Hash for all models.

0.0.8

• Improved number cleaning not to remove '+' and leading 0's. Now works with national numbers starting with 0 followed by country_code. Eg. 032 in BE.

0.0.7

• Fixed problem with '+' number

0.0.6

• Fixed problem with '070-4157134' being parsed as US number

TODO

• Fix phony v2.x issues.
• Make this work: Home.find_by_normalized_phone_number(Home.normalize_number(params[:phone_number])) So we use Home.normalize_number instead of PhonyRails.normalize_number. This way we can use the same default_country_code.
• Make country_code method configurable.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Don't forget to add tests and run rspec before creating a pull request :)

See all contributors on https://github.com/joost/phony_rails/graphs/contributors.