Credit Card Class

1. Get a copy of the starter files Prof. H has posted online at github.com. This code has a credit_card.rb file where you will write your solution, a credit_cards_context.rb file with 30 valid and invalid cards of various types, and a credit_cards_tests.rb file for testing the validity and type identification of the context cards. There is also a sandbox.rb file for some simple, off-the-cuff experimentation if you wish.

2. Your assignment is to write a CreditCard class that will adhere to a limited set of business rules listed at the end of the lab. The class should have a method called valid? that will make sure that card number provided adheres to these rules and that the expiration date is today or in the future. If time allows, you should create a type method which determines the card type (VISA, MC, etc.) from the card number given using the provided CreditCardType class.

   This class will need an initializer that takes in three variables. Check out the format in credit_cards_context.rb

3. For our testing purposes in this lab, there is only one valid? method which will be false if either the credit card number or the expiration date is invalid. You should very likely split these into separate methods within the class and have the valid? method use those methods. You may even create additional classes if you'd like; structure the code using some of the ideas discussed in lecture last week and you will be fine.

Stop

Show a TA that you have the tests for valid? passing correctly. If time allows, continue and implement the type attribute based on the CreditCardType class.

Notes

Credit card numbers follow a certain pattern specific to the type of credit card, and follow an algorithm called the Luhn algorithm. For the purposes of this problem, we only want to check some credit-card specific information, and not bother with the more complicated Luhn formula.

Credit card type-specific rules generally state that a number must start with a string of digits, and have a specific length. An incomplete list of the rules that we are applying here can be seen in the table below:

Use regex to check the credit card numbers!