Citizenship

Citizenship provides a set of easy validations on personal documents, addresses, bank account numbers and other personal information, of Portuguese citizens or of citizens living in Portugal ;)

It supports validation of:

NIB (i.e. "banking account number")
NIF (i.e. "fiscal number")
local phone numbers
identification card ('bilhetes de identidade'), were the old id Portuguese id documents. They are no longer issue, but many haven't yet expired, so are still used alongside the Citizen Card.
citizen card ('cartão do cidadão'), are the new ID cards currently in use
zip code (partial validation)
e-mail (well, just because :) )

Installation

Add this line to your Rails application's Gemfile:

gem 'citizenship'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install citizenship

and use it standalone.

Validations

NIB

result=Citizenship.valid_nib?("003503730000539151280") # returns true
result=Citizenship.valid_nib?('0035.03730000539.1512.80') # returns true
result=Citizenship.valid_nib?('38476129847') # returns false (since it fails proper size and CRC)
result=Citizenship.valid_nib?('0035.03730000539.1512.80', strict: true) # returns false
Citizenship.valid_nib!(nib) # raises Citizenship::Error if invalid

NIF

result=Citizenship.valid_nif?("123456789") # returns true
Citizenship.valid_nif!(nif) # raises Citizenship::Error if invalid
nif=Citizenship.valid_nif!("123456789") # returns "123456789"
result=Citizenship.valid_nif?(' 123456789', strict: true) # returns false (strict validation disallows whitespaces and others)

Phone Number

phone=Citizenship.valid_phone!('+351 96 933 2233', only_prefixes: ['93', '96']) # returns "+351 96 933 2233"
phone=Citizenship.valid_phone!('262-999-666') # returns "262-999-666"
result=Citizenship.valid_phone?('262999666', strict: true) # returns true
result=Citizenship.valid_phone?('+351 93 933 2233', allow_country_prefix: false) # returns false (since country prefix was used)
phone=Citizenship.valid_phone!('+351 93 933 2233') # returns "+351 93 933 2233"

Identification Card

result=Citizenship.valid_identification_card?('156 944 80', '4') # returns true
id=Citizenship.valid_identification_card!('156 944 8', '8') # returns '156 944 8'

Citizen Card

result=Citizenship.valid_citizen_card?('00000000 0 ZZ 4') # returns true
id=Citizenship.valid_citizen_card('00000000-0-ZZ-4') # returns '00000000-0-ZZ-4'

Zip Code

result=Citizenship.valid_zip_code?('1000-100') # returns true

E-mail

result=Citizenship.valid_email?("user@example.org") # returns true
result=Citizenship.valid_email?("  user@example.org ") # returns false (due to whitespaces)
result=Citizenship.valid_email?("@example.org") # returns false (due to missing user)

Rails Validators

We provide a useful range of Rails validators that you can include in your models, namely:

NifValidator ("nif")
NibValidator ("nib")
PhoneValidator ("phone")
EmailValidator ("email")
ZipCodeValidator ("zip_code")

Example

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates :fiscal_number, nif: true
  validates :mobile, phone: { allow_country_prefix: false }
  ...
end

Future Developments

Support full zip code validation
Support IBAN
Support validating documents for other EU countries

References

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request

License

About Runtime Revolution

Citizenship is maintained by Runtime Revolution. See our other projects and check out our blog for the latest updates.