Using Stripe webhooks with Rails

Question

I have successfully built out a rails app as per Ryan Bates' railscast (http://railscasts.com/episodes/288-billing-with-stripe) - However, in the railscast he doesn't cover webhooks. I was wondering if there are any good examples in the public domain of implementing and using webhooks to manage a subscription billing that has been created.

Any thoughts / direction would be super helpful?

Thanks!

Answer 1

There's a nice gem for this: https://github.com/integrallis/stripe_event.

It looks to be well written and maintained.

In your gemfile you can simply add the line -

gem 'stripe_event'

There's clear doc in the readme on github.

Answer 2

Most all payment gateways, including stripe, have some way of telling the client (your webapp) whether the charge went through or not.

For stripe, their docs show how to receive a webhook notification from them.

The flow is:

1. Create a controller and method in your app to receive the webhook calls from stripe. Note that the calls will come in as POSTs, not GETs
2. Register the url with stripe using their dashboard. This is a manual step that you do once.
3. When your method is called from stripe, use the event info to update your models which track the status of your users' subscriptions.

Any questions?