---
title: Handle webhooks and process async with Rails - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 6
slug: handle-webhooks-and-process-async-with-rails-creatorplatform-xyz-part-6
published_at: 2022-09-11 12:18:50 +0000
updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:13:13 +0000
summary: 
description: Handle webhooks and process async with Rails using sidekiq as our queue adapter. When a webhook event notification is received by Rails, we'll store the event in the database, then process it in the background with a Job. We'll talk about how to set up the routing for events based on the source and event type.   00:00 Introduction 00:20 Create a new Webhooks controller 01:29 Create a Job for handling webhook events 01:59 Install sidekiq in Ruby on Rails 7 03:39 Test Stripe webhooks 06:23 Route events based on source and event type 07:49 Install the Stripe Ruby gem 09:10 Conclusion  Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS6F722u-R6IJfBrIRx3a2SBkAL4vUp2p  Code: https://github.com/cjavdev/creators.dev/  Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjav_dev  #rubyonrails #ruby #rails
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author: CJ Avilla
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# Handle webhooks and process async with Rails - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 6

*Published: September 11, 2022*
*Views: 2735*

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## Description

Handle webhooks and process async with Rails using sidekiq as our queue adapter. When a webhook event notification is received by Rails, we'll store the event in the database, then process it in the background with a Job. We'll talk about how to set up the routing for events based on the source and event type. 

00:00 Introduction
00:20 Create a new Webhooks controller
01:29 Create a Job for handling webhook events
01:59 Install sidekiq in Ruby on Rails 7
03:39 Test Stripe webhooks
06:23 Route events based on source and event type
07:49 Install the Stripe Ruby gem
09:10 Conclusion

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS6F722u-R6IJfBrIRx3a2SBkAL4vUp2p 
Code: https://github.com/cjavdev/creators.dev/ 
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjav_dev

#rubyonrails #ruby #rails

## Transcript

hey what's up welcome back in this episode you'll see all about how to set up a web hook handler in this case we're going to start off with stripe web hooks we're going to handle those and that's going to set us up really well and have a good foundation for us to start doing connect onboarding so here we're going to generate a new controller rails g controller web hooks and that is going to be a controller that receives post requests from third parties so we're going to open that up and we're going to say um skip before action verify authenticity token and this create method is where we're going to create a new event we're going to say event is event.create if you missed where we created the event model head over and check out the previous episode where we set up events we talked a lot about enums so that was pretty cool so now we have data this is going to be params and we're also going to set the source here to params source and we're also going to store off the actually i think that's probably good for now say event.createbang and then what we want to do is render back a status of ok but ultimately we need some way to process this event so we're going to set up some event processing now in a background job before we do that though let's make sure we have our route configured so we're going to say if we receive a post request to slash webhook source we're going to make that go to webhooks create all right so let's generate a new jobs we're going to say rails g job event okay so we're going to have a handle event job handle event job this will take in the event and do some processing on the event so now back in our web hooks controller we're going to say handle event job dot perform later and pass in the event now in order to set up background jobs and background job handling in production i'm probably going to want to use sidekick so let's say bundle add sidekick and that's going to add the sidekick gem to our application we'll also open up application here and set it up so that we're going to set config.activejobq adapter to sidekick so that it uses sidekick as the queue adapter next we want to make sure that sidekick starts up and starts processing our jobs every time we start the server so let's open up our proc file and add a new thing here called the worker and that's going to say bundle exec sidekick just a startup sidekick when we restart the server now we can kill and restart the server and now we have a new worker that is up and running and working all right let's see if our webhook handler can actually receive post requests so we have our server up and running now we should be able to say curl dash x post to local host 3000 slash web hooks with dash d i don't know some data is data let's let's just see how this lands all right we sent a post request and it says no route matches post to slash web hooks all right because this should have been from web hooks slash some source we'll just say it's curl all right we got back a status of okay now let's look and see what's going on here so it says performing handle event that's great so if we open up rails console we should see a new event and we do the data is in here we've got data and we also have our controller create action the source was curl the status of the event is pending that's all fantastic all right so at this point we're ready to start testing our stripe web hooks that are going to come in now we can use the stripe cli for this i've already installed the stripe cli there's a bunch of instructions for how to install it you can install it in a lot of different ways from a lot of different package managers and things i think i used brew or homebrew so now i can say stripe login and that will open up this browser this allows me to pick which stripe account i want to authenticate with so i'm going to use my demo account here and say just trust access for now by saying stripe listen i will create a direct connection between stripe and my local machine that way when events happen on my stripe account they'll be forwarded to my local machine one way that we can trigger those events is we can say stripe trigger like customer.created and that will fire off an event or that will cause an event to fire and here you see this customer created event came in now in practice we want to say stripe listen forward to dash dash forward to localhost 3000 slash web hooks stripe and that will make sure that any events that fire on our account are forwarded to localhost 3000 stripes so if again we say trigger this customer created event we're going to see that a post request came in to webhook stripe and there's the event id and we we handled that event or we received that event so if we open up rails console again and say event.last now we have a new event from the source being striped with a whole bunch of data about a the brand new customer that um that was just created on the stripe account there's another flag we want to pass in addition to forward to and that is so that we can handle connect web hook so we're gonna say forward connect to localhost 3000 slash web hooks slash stripe it's going to be the same endpoint that will handle both direct or account events that are firing and events for each of our connected accounts so this is the command that we want to run to fire up this stripe listener now instead of running this every time again i'm going to open up the proc file and create another service here we're going to call it stripe and this is going to have our stripe listen command so that every time we restart the server we start forwarding those events in so that if any events are happening on our stripe account while we're building those will be delivered to our local web hook endpoint so now what we can do is for instance we can come over here again and say trigger customer created and now if we say event.last this is going to have a customer created event for this customer that was just created all right so at this point what we what we might want to do is open up our handle event job and think about how we want to route events that come in so here what we might do is something like a switch based on the the source for the event so case event.source when it's striped we're going to handle the stripe event handle stripe event for the event and here we might also switch on the type the event type so what i want to do is say like stripe event is stripe event dot construct from event.data that will construct an instance of a stripe event object from the data that was passed in and now we can say maybe like yeah switch on the type of the stripe event and we can say something like when it was customer.created then we can say handle customer created and pass down the stripe event so now we can say handle customer created and that'll give us the stripe event so now what we could do is just say like puts customer.created and then maybe like the id of the stripe event or something yeah and let's just play around and see if that works so we should be able to trigger a new customer created that should flow in and be handled by our job but it looks like our job crashed and it says do you mean string when we were talking about stripe ah that's because we haven't actually installed the stripe gem so let's do that now we'll say bundle add stripe that's gonna add the stripe gem to our installation now we're going to open up config initializers stripe.rb and set our api key stripe.api key is rails.application.credentials.stripe secret now i'm going to open up my rails credentials with rails credentials colon edit now i'm specifying the editor that i want to use when i open up and edit my credentials here i'm going to set our first credentials those are going to be for stripe and we're going to say secret and initially this is just going to be my test mode secret key so i'm going to go to my dashboard go to developers api keys and i'm going to copy my secret key paste it in here and then i should be good to go now when we run bin dev again we have this new gem that's installed for stripe and we should be able to create or trigger a new customer created event and that fired and somewhere here in the logs we should see our output here we go customer.created and that is the id of the new customer that was created so that looks like it's working well so we've got a system now that will handle web hooks that's fantastic because we're going to need to handle web hooks while we're doing custom connect onboarding which is going to allow us to create stripe accounts on behalf of other creators that are using our platform to manage their content or you know run courses or whatever so we're going to in the next episode make some more progress thanks so much for watching really appreciate your time and attention and we'll see you in the next one [Music]

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