What is it?

TelephoneNumber is global phone number validation gem based on Google's libphonenumber library.

Feel free to check out our demo!

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Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'telephone_number'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install telephone_number

This library requires Ruby 2.4 or later.

validates :my_attribute_name, telephone_number: {country: proc{|record| record.country}, types: [:fixed_line, :mobile, etc]}

• :area_code_optional
• :fixed_line
• :mobile
• :no_international_dialling
• :pager
• :personal_number
• :premium_rate
• :shared_cost
• :toll_free
• :uan
• :voicemail
• :voip

• In this example, record.country must yield a valid two letter country code such as :us, :ca or 'DE'
• You can also just pass a String or Symbol instead of a Proc.

You can obtain a TelephoneNumber object by calling:

phone_object = TelephoneNumber.parse("3175082237", :us) ==>

#<TelephoneNumber::Number:0x007fe3bc146cf0
  @country=:US,
  @e164_number="13175083348",
  @national_number="3175083348",
  @original_number="3175083348">

After that you have the following instance methods available to you.

• valid_types

  Returns all types that the number is considered valid for.

  phone_object.valid_types ==> [:fixed_line, :mobile, :toll_free]

• valid?

  Returns boolean value indicating whether or not valid_types is empty.

  phone_object.valid? ==> true

• national_number(formatted: true)

  Returns the national formatted number including special characters such as parenthesis and dashes. You can omit the special characters by passing formatted: false

  phone_object.national_number ==> "(317) 508-2237"

• international_number(formatted: true)

  Returns the international formatted number including special characters such as parenthesis and dashes. You can omit the special characters by passing formatted: false

  phone_object.international_number ==> "+1 317-508-2237"

• e164_number(formatted: true)

  Returns the international formatted number including special characters such as parenthesis and dashes. You can omit the special characters by passing formatted: false

  phone_object.e164_number ==> "+13175082237"

• country

  Returns an object containing data related a the number's country.

  phone_object.country ===>
   #<TelephoneNumber::Country:0x007fb976267410
   @country_code="1",
   @country_id="US",
   ...
  

• location

  Returns the location of the number. Default locale is :en

  phone_object.location ==> "Indiana"

  phone_object.location(:ja) ==> "ソウル特別市"

• timezone

  Returns the time zone of the number.

  phone_object.timezone ==> "America/New_York"

You also have the following class methods available to you.

• parse

  Returns a TelephoneNumber object.

  TelephoneNumber.parse("3175082237", :US)

  If you pass an E164 formatted number, we will determine the country on the fly.

  TelephoneNumber.parse("+13175082237")

• valid?

  Returns boolean value indicating whether or not a particular number is valid.

  TelephoneNumber.valid?("3175082237", :US) ==> true

  If you are looking to validate against a specific set of keys, you can pass in an array of keys

  TelephoneNumber.valid?("3175082237", :US, [:mobile, :fixed_line]) ==> true
  TelephoneNumber.valid?("3175082237", :US, [:toll_free]) ==> false
  

• invalid?

  Returns boolean value indicating whether or not a particular number is invalid.

  TelephoneNumber.invalid?("3175082237", :US) ==> false

  If you are looking to invalidate against a specific set of keys, you can pass in an array of keys

  TelephoneNumber.invalid?("3175082237", :US, [:mobile, :fixed_line]) ==> false
  TelephoneNumber.invalid?("3175082237", :US, [:toll_free]) ==> true
  

In the event that you need to override the data that Google is providing, you can do so by setting an override file. This file is expected to be in the same format as Google's as well as serialized using Marshal.

To generate a serialized override file:

ruby bin/console
TelephoneNumber.generate_override_file("/path/to/file")

In this instance, /path/to/file represents an xml file that has your custom data in the same structure that Google's data is in.

You can set the override file with:

TelephoneNumber.override_file = "/path/to_file.dat"

If TelephoneNumber is passed an invalid number and then asked to format that number, it will simply return an unformatted string of the originally passed number. This is because formatting rules will not be found for invalid numbers. If this is unacceptable, you can set a default_format_pattern and default_format_string that TelephoneNumber will use attempt to format invalid numbers.

TelephoneNumber.default_format_pattern = "(\\d{3})(\\d{3})(\\d*)"
TelephoneNumber.default_format_string = "($1) $2-$3"

invalid_number = "1111111111"
phone_object = TelephoneNumber.parse(invalid_number, :US)
phone_object.national_number ==> "(111) 111-1111"

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

While developing new functionality, you may want to test against specific phone numbers. In order to do this, add the number to lib/telephone_number/test_data_generator.rb and then run rake data:test:import. This command will reach out to the demo application provided by Google and pull the correct formats to test against.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/mobi/telephone_number. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

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