Our Client libraries raise exceptions for many reasons, such as a failed charge, invalid parameters, authentication errors, and network unavailability. We recommend writing code that gracefully handles all possible API exceptions.
begin # Use Stripe's library to make requests...rescue Stripe::CardError => e puts "Status is: #{e.http_status}" puts "Type is: #{e.error.type}" puts "Charge ID is: #{e.error.charge}" # The following fields are optional puts "Code is: #{e.error.code}" if e.error.code puts "Decline code is: #{e.error.decline_code}" if e.error.decline_code puts "Param is: #{e.error.param}" if e.error.param puts "Message is: #{e.error.message}" if e.error.messagerescue Stripe::RateLimitError => e # Too many requests made to the API too quicklyrescue Stripe::InvalidRequestError => e # Invalid parameters were supplied to Stripe's APIrescue Stripe::AuthenticationError => e # Authentication with Stripe's API failed # (maybe you changed API keys recently)rescue Stripe::APIConnectionError => e # Network communication with Stripe failedrescue Stripe::StripeError => e # Display a very generic error to the user, and maybe send # yourself an emailrescue => e # Something else happened, completely unrelated to Stripeend