Set up your development environment

Get familiar with the Stripe CLI and our server-side SDKs.

Stripe’s server-side SDKs and command-line interface (CLI) allow you to interact with Stripe’s REST APIs. Start with the Stripe CLI to streamline your development environment and make API calls.

Use the SDKs to avoid writing boilerplate code. To start sending requests from your environment, choose a language to follow a quickstart guide.

Chrome extensions

We recommend you build your payment integration with Stripe (such as Elements or Checkout) on your own website. Then, set up your Chrome extension to send users to this payment page when they’re ready to complete a purchase.

This method is more secure and easier to maintain than trying to handle payments directly within the extension.

In this quickstart, you install the Stripe CLI—an essential tool that gets you command line access to your Stripe integration. You also install the Stripe Ruby server-side SDK to get access to Stripe APIs from applications written in Ruby.

What you learn

In this quickstart, you’ll learn:

How to call Stripe APIs without writing a line of code
How to manage third-party dependencies using a bundler with RubyGems
How to install the Stripe Ruby SDK v16.0.0
How to send your first SDK request

Set up the Stripe CLI

First, create a Stripe account or sign in.

Install

From the command-line, use an install script or download and extract a versioned archive file for your operating system to install the CLI.

Authenticate

Log in and authenticate your Stripe user account to generate a set of restricted keys. To learn more, see Stripe CLI keys and permissions.

Press the Enter key on your keyboard to complete the authentication process in your browser.

Confirm setup

Now that you’ve installed the CLI, you can make a single API request to Create a product.

Look for the product identifier (in id) in the response object. Save it for the next step.

If everything worked, the command-line displays the following response.

Next, call Create a price to attach a price of 30 USD. Swap the placeholder in product with your product identifier (for example, prod_LTenIrmp8Q67sa).

If everything worked, the command-line displays the following response.

Manage third-party dependencies

We recommend managing third-party dependencies using the RubyGems command-line tool, which allows you to add new libraries and include them in your Ruby projects. Check whether RubyGems is installed:

Install RubyGems

If you get gem: command not found, download RubyGems from their downloads page.

Install the Ruby server-side SDK

The latest version of the Stripe Ruby server-side SDK is v16.0.0. It supports Ruby versions 2.3+.

Check your Ruby version:

Install the library

Create a gem file and install the generated gem using a bundler with RubyGems.

Add the latest version of the Stripe gem to a project:

Install the required gems from your specified sources:

Installation alternatives

Add as dependency—Add the latest version of the library as a gem dependency:

Global installation—Install the library globally with RubyGems:

Manual installation—Build the gem from source, and then install the library by running:

Run your first SDK request

Now that you have the Ruby SDK installed, you can create a subscription Product and attach a Price with a couple API requests. We’re using the product identifier returned in the response to create the price in this example.

Note

This sample uses the default keys of your Stripe user account for your sandbox environment. Only you can see these values.

Save the file as create_price.rb. From the command line, cd to the directory containing the file you just saved and run:

If everything worked, the command line shows the following response. Save these identifiers so you can use them while building your integration.