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title: Update reservations to booked, handle refunds - clearbnb - Part 11
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description: Update reservations to booked, handle refunds - clearbnb - Part 11 #rails #rubyonrails
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# Update reservations to booked, handle refunds - clearbnb - Part 11

*Published: December 06, 2021*
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## Description

Update reservations to booked, handle refunds - clearbnb - Part 11
#rails #rubyonrails

## Transcript

what&#39;s up welcome back this is episode 11 of building out clear bnb a vacation rental platform where there&#39;s like transparent pricing we&#39;re using ruby on rails and in this episode we&#39;re going to set up background jobs there are a couple other episodes we&#39;ve already done on this channel setting up background jobs so i&#39;m going to kind of go through it fast i also sort of forget how exactly how i&#39;ve set it up in the past so we are going to just go through the active job basics process here for getting it all set up and then yeah we should be good to go so i think we want to say like rails active there&#39;s like active job rails generate so we can generate jobs with rails g job and then like the name of the job but then like actually like in cueing it or setting up your queue adapter here we want to i think what we want to do is set ours up as rescue so let&#39;s go through the process of setting up rescue so we&#39;re going to install the gem rescue so we&#39;re going to go to our gem file go to the bottom install gem rescue bundle install then in application rb we&#39;re going to set the queue adapter to rescue so we&#39;re going to open up application rb and we&#39;re going to set the queue adapter to rescue then in our rake file we&#39;re going to require this okay and then we are going to we&#39;re not using rails 5.x we&#39;re on rails 7 but i don&#39;t think we need that rails g job and then we generate a job okay and then we queue as default perform blah blah blah is that really it that can&#39;t be it can it uh run redis server okay so i guess i&#39;m gonna open up a new tab here and say redis server that should fire up the redis server i thought we needed to like configure redis&#39;s thingy like the url to redis or something um but i&#39;m sure i&#39;m forgetting something also we want to like actually rake we want to run this rake q job thing so that it runs cd clear b and b q so this is like saying run all the cues and rake rescue work on all the cues and that just hangs and waits for jobs to be added to the queue but i really don&#39;t think that&#39;s all that it takes but maybe i&#39;m i hope i&#39;m wrong so additionally you can mount the web version of rescue to your project add this to your routes.rb uh what okay so this is cool routes.rb so down here we&#39;re going to add this thing so authenticate user i don&#39;t want just anyone to be able to go see jobs all right so we&#39;ll change the constraints to the rescue web constraint so that it should only it should only mount if i&#39;m logged in as user one so user.find one that should be me and okay so now if we whatever like that should be fine so if we go to like local host 3000 slash jobs we might need to restart the server to uh uninitialized rescue yeah i think i don&#39;t know if i restarted it since we installed the rescue gem so an initialized constant rescue server do i need to like require that or something apparently okay oops all right cool so this is this is showing our jobs we already have some failed jobs huh create stripe customer job from four minutes ago huh i persist okay so this is this is old stuff so clear failed jobs okay this is from another actually like another rails application all right so now what we should be able to do is test this out by generating a new drop by saying rails g job um uh i guess like what the whole point i want to use at background jobs well there&#39;s a couple reasons number one when we&#39;re interacting with the stripe api i want to like create customers and create products and create checkout sessions and things like that in the background and i also want to handle events for web hooks in the background and because we&#39;re not going to talk about the stripe stuff too much right here what i want to do is i&#39;m going to create this job and call it like process event or handle handle event um or maybe just event like the event job and that should be solid so rails g job yep okay rails g job event okay so this should create uh an event job class for us and it did it&#39;s queued as default and it is going to be performed with the event id so we don&#39;t have an event id so rails g model event so i when i&#39;m building a web hook system i like to have an event model that has all the json for the event the type of the event the source of the event when the event happened and then a status and i want to be able to reprocess those events locally not every single web hook provider has like a way to retry events so i do my best to try to just get the data as fast as i can from the third party return with an ack and then kick off a background drop to go process that event data and so here what i&#39;m going to do is i&#39;m going to say we want to store the like request body as like a blob or something or text i don&#39;t know and then we want to store the status as an integer again it&#39;s going to be some sort of like pending processed failed situation we want like an error message and that&#39;s going to be text if um processing the event fails we&#39;re going to store it in as an error message we want like a source this is going to be text or string it&#39;s going to be a string the source is going to be like stripe or um like uh or uh mailchimp or if we integrate with slack or like airbnb or any of these different platforms then the source might be that platform this is like where the event is coming from and then almost all of these are going to have an event type and i will just try to keep track of the event types for each of the events that are coming in events might also have ids and whatever else but um the goal is i&#39;m just going to like take in the request body stuff it into the this request body&#39;s text store a status for the event store the error message source etc uh et cetera so this is going to be our webhook model just to start off there&#39;s ways we can get more complex um i am not going to do signature verification but in practice you should um maybe we should for stripe i don&#39;t know we&#39;ll see okay so we&#39;ve got this thing let&#39;s go take a look it definitely needs a request body it&#39;s got its integer status defaults to zero and okay rails db migrate okay rails g controller web hooks so this is going to be like where our web hooks are ingested or like the web hook events are ingested routes uh okay and then we&#39;re gonna say resources web hooks only create and then we&#39;ll go to our web hooks controller and def create this one we want to skip csrf authentication because these are going to be post requests not when a user is on our site um but when the user or like it&#39;s going to be a third party system sending a post request to our controller so there&#39;s no csrf protection and it doesn&#39;t really make sense um okay and then we need to create an event but let&#39;s annotate so that we can remember the exact names for the columns on the event model back to our web hooks controller and then we&#39;ll split this with event and okay so we&#39;re going to say event.createbang and we want to give it the request body and for this what i think makes the most sense i&#39;m trying i&#39;m debating whether or not we should just use the json for the event or if we should just plop the whole request body like the raw request body in there and like json parse it later down the road um and i&#39;m thinking between params or the actual like request.raw post or something like that um yeah request dot raw post i think railsrequest.raw post i think that&#39;s going to give us the raw body right it&#39;s like the untouched body useful for services they need to work with raw requests directly i think maybe i don&#39;t know status is pending it&#39;s going to start off as pending this is going to be an enum listing just like this and it&#39;s going to start off as pending and it might go to processed or it could even be processing and then failed and whatever we&#39;ll just leave it with those three states for now i generally will also have processing but whatever this is good so we also need if we have an error message we&#39;ll update that later the source is going to be params source and we&#39;re going to add that as something into yeah let&#39;s okay and event type i&#39;m debating whether or not we should have an event type or not and yeah okay so the source let&#39;s go back to our routes let&#39;s actually let&#39;s let&#39;s make this a little different let&#39;s say like we&#39;re going to add a post to slash webhooks source like this and this is going to go to the web hooks create and the reason that i want to tack on source on the end is like that will allow us to just create as many web hook endpoints as we want and just add like slash stripe or slash mailchimp or whatever to the end and then we&#39;ll be able to keep track of what those sources are um okay so now we should have an event now i want to say like event job.process later or perform later perform later event and i wanted to go like handle that event somewhere else and then render json of like message success or something we&#39;re also going to spit back success immediately if this event create doesn&#39;t fail um and i think i&#39;m convincing myself that this should actually just be like not the raw post request but whatever uh let&#39;s start with this for now and what i want to do is just try to test it out and so the way that we can test this is with another thing here so we&#39;re going to split the pane vertically and we are going to say stripe login so we&#39;re going to use the stripe cli to connect to our stripe account which is here let me do this again and okay clear bnb allow access i&#39;m going to close this view come back to the cli now if we say like stripe customers list that should give us back our customers and raymond damore we already played around with that okay so now what we can do is use stripe listen dash dash forward to localhost 3000 slash web hook web hooks web hooks stripe and that means anytime events fire on our stripe account they should be forwarded to the local running web hook endpoint now what we can do just to like test this out is split the pane again and say stripe trigger like checkout dot session completed and okay so that is firing events they&#39;re coming in they&#39;re all being processed so that is amazing and those events are being or like the jobs are being enqueued um we are we have this rake rescue queue thing running um but i&#39;m not sure if those jobs are actually firing off so we can say event.count whoops reload event.account okay so now we have five we have five events so event.last okay so in this events request body we do have the incoming rob request body we&#39;ve got the status is pending the source with stripe we have no error message no event type cool now as part of this event job when we perform the event i think we want to just say event here and then we want to process the event so processing the event is going to involve like dealing with whatever json is inside that or like dealing with whatever content is inside that event that events body so here i think what we want to do is switch on the events source so what am i doing okay ruby ruby switch uh ruby switch statement so we&#39;re gonna do a case it&#39;s actually a case statement so we&#39;re gonna do a case statement in ruby so case even uh case event dot source and when it&#39;s stripe um otherwise we want to like event update like error message is going to be unknown source event.source okay so when the source is striped though we&#39;re going to say like the data is event dot what is it event dot request body and we want a json json.parse that so that&#39;s going to give us our event data and then what we can do is we can say like data actually you know what we can do here is use um we can use the stripe ruby method to deserialize that json data into the right kind of event so we&#39;re going to switch to ruby back end here so stripe yeah stripe event construct from uh json.parse event dot request body symbolize true that gives us our event now we can say uh maybe we might like have another method here called like handle stripe event and here we can say case event dot type when checkout dot session dot completed do something so we can handle several different event types we&#39;re going to start off with checkout session completed and eventually we&#39;re going to like do something with the checkout session and the reservation but for now we&#39;ll just like print out like the uh reserve or like let&#39;s print out the checkout session id event.data.object.id so this is actually i don&#39;t know like let&#39;s do checkout session is event data.object that way we have like a nice name for it check out session and we can say like metadata or something and see if we can actually like get that printed out handle stripe event all right so from rails console we should be able to say um event job.perform now for one of these events oh the other thing is that like yeah after we finish performing the event um we want to mark or we want to update the status so in this case the status is failed and in this case the status is going to be like begin rescue end or like finally i can&#39;t remember if we have a finally ruby try catch finally or what what it&#39;s called ensure okay ensure um yeah so if there&#39;s an error we want to say event dot update error message is like e dot message or something and the status is failed but if we don&#39;t have any error messages then we want to say event dot actually we don&#39;t even want to ensure we want to do it here event update status processed and error message is empty the reason i&#39;m setting it empty here is that in the case where we&#39;re retrying something and reprocessing it we want to like clear out any old error message and yeah i think that&#39;s fine i think we can also say event type here is event.type that will be helpful in the future okay so what we&#39;re saying is like we get some event from some source and then we want to process that using our new background job called event job perform later and or we can say perform now and we&#39;re going to pass in event.last and what we&#39;re expecting this to do is to enqueue a background job that&#39;s going to run with rescue that&#39;s going to use like redis as its backing server and blah blah blah and it&#39;s going to come into this perform method and it&#39;s going to check the source is it about stripe if so do all this stuff if not then we don&#39;t know about the source and fail the event and mark it as failed at the end of the day we shouldn&#39;t have any pending events like after they&#39;re all processed we shouldn&#39;t have any pending and if there are any that are failed we want to just be able to go back and rerun those or figure out did we just add a new source and we hadn&#39;t any we didn&#39;t have any processing for it or what the deal is so let&#39;s run this oh gosh we have a name collision here okay so this is gonna be the stripe event and we&#39;ll say handle stripe stripe event uh then stripe event dot type and yeah because this event here is the active record model so let&#39;s try it again okay so we&#39;ve got a begin update the status it is updating this okay so it&#39;s updating the status to be processed the error message to be empty the event type to be checkout session completed and we should have seen something happen in the logs maybe yeah enqueued something okay so now if we say event.last we should see okay so we see that it is processed okay fantastic now one thing that i&#39;ve seen in the past is like for each event type you could say like handle stripe check out session completed and then pass in like event data.object and then wait for it to do its thing like way down the line or you could even here have like um you know event colon colon stripe colon colon checkout session completed.call and passing the event type and whatever all of those are cool ways to sort of build up over time that makes it really nice and testable because you&#39;re just testing like what is the class that is responsible for dealing with a very specific event type from a very specific channel i&#39;m going to leave that as an exercise for the reader so you can go and set that up if you want but for now it looks like our background jobs are processing as expected they&#39;re running in the background and we&#39;ve got background processing set up so in the next episode we&#39;re going to jump in and we&#39;re going to round out our reservation processing so that when we receive a reservation we can mark it as paid or booked or whatever based on that checkout session being completed and the payment being successful so that&#39;s what we&#39;re going to do in the next episode thanks so much for watching hopefully this was useful i really love web hooks they&#39;re super fun and uh they&#39;re incredibly useful so by having these tools of like the event object that can store any generic stuff from any source get your webhook endpoint that&#39;s mapped to a source and you can take it in then you pass it off to a background job the background job figures all the stuff out and handles updating that event object underneath the hood and you can go and update or create um you know subordinate objects as part of that web hook processing really really good flow in my experience so in the next episode we&#39;ll yeah we&#39;ll get back into it thanks for watching and we&#39;ll see in the next one [Music]

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