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Receiving Stripe Webhooks 101

Webhooks = incoming POST requests from external services.

To receive incoming Stripe webhooks you do not need any gem.

First configure dashboard.stripe.com to receive wehooks (as described above)

Next, You need to add a route in routes.rb

   resources :webhooks, only: [:create]

add a webhooks controller app/controllers/webhooks_controller.rb

class WebhooksController < ApplicationController
  skip_before_action :authenticate_user!
  skip_before_action :verify_authenticity_token

  def create
    payload = request.body.read
    sig_header = request.env['HTTP_STRIPE_SIGNATURE']
    event = nil

    begin
      event = Stripe::Webhook.construct_event(
        payload, sig_header, Rails.application.credentials.dig(:stripe, :webhook)
      )
    rescue JSON::ParserError => e
      status 400
      return
    rescue Stripe::SignatureVerificationError => e
      # Invalid signature
      puts "Signature error"
      p e
      return
    end

    # Handle the event
    case event.type
    when 'checkout.session.completed'
      session = event.data.object
      @user = User.find_by(stripe_customer_id: session.customer)
      @user.update(subscription_status: 'active')
    when 'customer.subscription.updated', 'customer.subscription.deleted'
      subscription = event.data.object
      @user = User.find_by(stripe_customer_id: subscription.customer)
      @user.update(
        subscription_status: subscription.status,
        plan: subscription.items.data[0].price.lookup_key,
      )
    end

    render json: { message: 'success' }
  end
end

now you can receive webhooks when a subscription was updated or deleted, or when a checkout was completed.

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