kickbox_rails

KickboxRails

Validate emails using Kickbox.io API in Ruby on Rails and fallback to basic syntax email validation if Kickbox.io API fails for any reason

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'kickbox_rails'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Execute next command for generate initializer kickbox_rails.rb, where you can configure your kickbox.io account api_key:

$ rails g kickbox_rails:install

Usage

# Rails
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_kickbox_email_format :email
  # OR
  validates :email, kickbox_email_format: { message: 'Email is invalid' }
end

# Non Rails
KickboxRails.valid?("[e-mail]")
KickboxRails.invalid?("[e-mail]")

If you want to get related info from kickbox.io API use validate method

KickboxRails.validate("[e-mail]") =>

{
  "result":"invalid",
  "reason":"rejected_email",
  "role":false,
  "free":false,
  "disposable":false,
  "accept_all":false,
  "did_you_mean":"[e-mail]",
  "sendex":0,
  "email":"[e-mail]",
  "user":"bill.lumbergh",
  "domain":"gamil.com",
  "success":true,
  "message":null
}

Contributing

• Fork it ( http://github.com/the-cocktail/kickbox_rails/fork )
• 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