2019-10-16-webhooks

Office Hours 2019-10-16 - Webhooks

Evolve a basic webhook handler from the most primitave to one that follows some recommended best practices for handling Stripe webhooks.

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Getting Started

Follow these instructions to spin-up a copy of this demo project up on your local machine for development and testing purposes. This is meant to be a guide to show you how to go about evolving a webhook handling system.

Prerequisites

• Ruby 2.4.5
• Postgres
• Stripe CLI
• Create a stripe account
• Stripe API Keys

Step by Step

1. Download and Install dependencies

git clone [email protected]:stripe-samples/developer-office-hours.git
cd developer-office-hours/2019-10-16-webhooks
bundle install

2. Login and start stripe-cli listener

Note: Copy the whsec_xxx key from the output of the listen command.

stripe login
stripe listen --forward-to localhost:3000/webhook_events/stripe

3. Update API keys

EDITOR=vi rails credentials:edit

Add your Stripe API keys to the Rails credentials.

stripe:
  pk: pk_your_publishable_key
  sk: sk_your_secret_key
  wh: whsec_your_webhook_signing_secret

4. Update publishable key and SKU for testing in /public/index.html

Create a new product and enable Checkout in your Stripe Dashboard.

5. Setup Database

rake db:create db:migrate

6. Start rails server

rails server

7. Browse to http://localhost:3000