You don’t need this source code unless you want to modify the gem. If you just want to use the Stripe Ruby bindings, you should run:

sudo gem install --source https://code.stripe.com stripe

If you want to build the gem from source:

sudo gem build stripe.gemspec

• Ruby 1.8.7 or above. (Ruby 1.8.6 may work if you load ActiveSupport.)

• rest-client (>= 1.6.1), json