--- title: Reservation booked notifications with noticed - clearbnb - Part 20 slug: reservation-booked-notifications-with-noticed-clearbnb-part-20 published_at: 2022-03-25 10:00:11 +0000 updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:13:37 +0000 summary: description: We'll use the noticed gem to send emails when we receive the webhook confirmation of a booking. #rails #rubyonrails tags: [cjav_dev, web development tutorials, web development for beginners, vim, ruby, rails, noticed, notifications, email, booked notification] views: 660 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/reservation-booked-notifications-with-noticed-clearbnb-part-20 youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGW0ttDW0r8 youtube_id: CGW0ttDW0r8 embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/CGW0ttDW0r8 thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CGW0ttDW0r8/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # Reservation booked notifications with noticed - clearbnb - Part 20 *Published: March 25, 2022* *Views: 660* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGW0ttDW0r8) [![Reservation booked notifications with noticed - clearbnb - Part 20](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CGW0ttDW0r8/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGW0ttDW0r8) ## Description We'll use the noticed gem to send emails when we receive the webhook confirmation of a booking. #rails #rubyonrails ## Transcript hey welcome back this is episode 20 of clearbnb we're rebuilding a vacation rental marketplace and in this episode we're going to talk about sending a notification to the guest when they book so we can confirm and notification to the host when they receive a booking so that they know that somebody's coming and we're going to use the notice jam today from chris oliver to wire up all of these notifications so let's jump in and get started first we're going to add the nodus gem to our bundle using bundle add noticed that's going to install the dependency and right after that we want to call rails g noticed colon model that's going to generate this new model called a notification and the notification is going to include this um migration that will have like a polymorphic association back to some recipient to which we're sending this notification we'll say railsdb migrate that's going to migrate the database and create that notifications table in the database now we need to add the has many notifications as recipient to the user model because that is who is going to receive these notifications and then we also need to generate notifications so we're going to say railsg notice notification and we need some kind of notification so in this case we will probably call it like host um reservation booked notification i know that's super long but uh yeah that's what we're gonna call one of them and then the other one we'll call the guest guest reservation book notification we need two because the recipient can't be two different people for the same notification if we're going to use a different mailer or like a different view for the mailer and we want to send a little bit different messaging the guest is going to be like you're confirmed and the host is going to say someone booked and here's when they're coming and here's their information etc so let's open up the host notification first and the delivery methods here we're going to use the database we're also going to use a mailer in this case we're going to create a new mailer called the reservation mailer and the method is going to be the host booked and if we look over in the documentation for the noticed gem you'll find that there is a section about all the different delivery methods down here so under the email section it talks about how you can specify which method on the mailer to use in this case we're going to use that host booked method and in the case of the guest it's going to be very similar we're going to use these two and then we're going to use the reservation mailer and the method is going to be guest booked now the reservation mailer doesn't exist yet so let's just generate that so ra rails g mailer reservation mailer and i think i don't know can we say host booked and guest booked is it smart enough to know that it needs those views ah fantastic okay so it created the um the view templates for us so that is awesome let's jump into the host booked one and edit that so it's going to be like you know uh you've got like a new uh new reservation and then we should probably pass down some information about the reservation so we'll say reservation.guest.email booked your property and then we'll put in like at reservation.listing.com they might have multiple properties and then we're going to say like i don't know like um when they're coming probably so we'll say like at reservation dot start date um two end date and that should be that should be good uh okay let's go work on the guest book notification it's actually gonna be somewhat similar i don't know like uh booking confirmed and then we'll say like you're all set to stay you're all set to stay at um the reservation dot listing dot title um and then again uh we'll just like copy the reservation start and end dates and that's probably a good start so if we go over to the um guest guest reservation book notification so this is when we send this we're going to call guest reservation book notification with and then we're going to pass in a reservation so we want to require that the reservation param is there we also want to do the same thing for the uh host reservation uh booked notification reservation and what that does is make sure that when we're in our reservation mailer in here we have the at reservation available in params so we're going to copy that for the host book and the guest booked and what we're going to do is we're going to mail to in the case of the host booking yeah reservation.host.email thank you github co-pilot and then also when we mail to we're going to say reservation guest email you are maybe like your reservation is confirmed um uh okay so that's like a really good start let's uh let's see if we can mess around with this for a second um okay we'll come back over here and try host reservation notification and actually like let's update this to say uh reservation just so we keep the documentation in sync with what we're actually doing here and then yeah let's copy let's copy that uh so that we can actually send it so from the rails console uh let's reload it so we have our new notice gem and the reservation that we're gonna send is we'll just say like reservation.last reservation.last and because it's the host whoops reservation.last.deliver is going to be user first i think the user the first user was the host boom look at that because we're using letter opener we get this browser window that opens up and it tells us this guest booked your property blah blah blah from this date to this date i think i don't know is that the right is that the right guest host booked reservation.guest.email yeah sure okay uh and then let's do the same thing but for the guest all right you're all set to stay at blah blah blah from that day to that date awesome okay this is fantastic so now we're using the notice gem we can also see like notification.all and now we have like a host reservation book notification and a guest reservation book notification this makes it really nice because then we can go build like these really beautiful like sort of news feed style things about what's happening on that specific reservation um and yeah so this is using the the notice gem to send notifications when we receive bookings um oh right now we need to wire it up to the web hook handler so over here i'm already using the stripe cli to listen for web hook events that's a direct connection between stripe and my local machine when events fire on my stripe account they're delivered here and so if i open up the webhook handler or the webhook controller we can sort of follow this down so we are performing the jobs in the background using this event job situation and if the source of the web hook is from stripe then we call handle stripe and we pass that down into this handle stripe function where we sort of switch on all the different types now if the checkout session is completed this is where the reservation is actually booked so we want to say something like guest reservation booked notific actually yeah let me just copy from over here the one that we already used so yeah that's good and that'll give us something to work with okay so the reservation we're passing is reservation that's the one that we found based on the checkout session id that was on the on the reservation object when we create the reservation object and redirect to checkout we store that checkout session id so that we can look it up later and then when we're delivering we actually want to deliver later and we're going to deliver to reservation dot i think it's reservation.host right and then we want to change this one to guest and in this case we're going to deliver it to the guest and all right so what do we want to do we want to go through the entire checkout flow so let's go to the listings and pick a property we're going to say reserve and we'll pick some dates here maybe the 21st to the 23rd and we'll say reserve all right we're redirected to stripe checkout let's enter some card details uh four two four two four two and then um i don't know some date in the future any random cbc guest and okay let's book for six dollars and 25 cents 2.33 cents a night i don't faker and random numbers decided on really low prices for these for these reservations look at that okay two brand new emails were sent right after we checked out and so this is our like booking confirmation so we received something here that says booking confirmed we also receive something here that says there is a new reservation perfect at this point we're able to notify the guest and the host when new reservations happen by email in the next video we'll talk about how to send messages between guests and hosts as they can like talk about the reservation they can say what's the wi-fi password and is there going to be a you know a pack and play when we arrive and do you allow dogs and do you have a hot tub and things like that so you can go back and forth and yeah we'll do that also i think we might also use the noticed gem for that and maybe we'll talk about receiving email in a future episode thanks so much for watching really appreciate your time and attention if you're enjoying this episode please give me a subscribe a thumbs up bring the notification about all those good things and uh yeah we'll talk to you later see in the next episode [Music] you --- [Back to all videos](https://www.cjav.dev/videos) --- ## Hey Agent, thanks for visiting! 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