What's the best ruby gem for parsing international phone number?

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I need a library to help with parsing international phone number. I tried a couple of them like phone_number, phone, phony, and phoney. After playing with them the whole afternoon, none of them is perfect or as good as Google's libphonenumber (Java though). However, I am forced to choose one for my current project so I go with phoney gem, which seems active and provides more international support. Does anyone know anything better?

There was a similar question below but it's more than a year ago and focused on US phone numbers.

Is there a gem that normalizes and format US phone numbers in ruby?

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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 21 '12 at 02:03

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Check out Phoner. It seems to parse both US and international numbers well.

answered Sep 21 '12 at 02:03

Winfield

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Check out rules in phoner https://github.com/carr/phone/blob/master/data/phone_countries.yml and rules in phoney https://github.com/habermann24/phoney/blob/master/lib/data/regions.yml. The latter provides more details. – Daniel Tsai Sep 21 '12 at 02:47

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '14 at 20:35

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The most current and supported (as for now) is https://github.com/floere/phony

Also you can have a look on https://github.com/carr/phone and https://github.com/habermann24/phoney/

answered Nov 11 '14 at 20:35

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 19 '13 at 05:47

I wrote a gem called ItuCodes that does basic parsing of country codes, paying special attention to complex cases like North America, Russia & Kazakhstan: * https://github.com/bowsersenior/itu_codes

ItuCodes does not aim to fully parse area codes for every country code, but such a tool could be built on top of it.

What's the best ruby gem for parsing international phone number?

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