Webhook helpers in stripe-ruby

Learn how to use helpers in the client library to deserialize webhook event payloads into instances of objects rather than working with raw json directly. You'll also learn how signature verification works and how you can use the methods in the client library to handle signature verification for you.

### Presenter

Thorsten Schaeff - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/thorwebdev

### Resources

Client library: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ruby
Documentation for basic: https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/build
Documentation for signature verification: https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/signatures
Code: https://github.com/stripe-samples/developer-office-hours/tree/master/2020-10-30-client-libraries/ruby/webhooks

## Table of contents

00:00 Webhooks overview
00:49 Events
01:41 Webhooks vs. polling
01:57 Versioning
02:24 Deserialization
02:52 Development process
03:18 Implement a basic webhook handler
07:52 Security
08:21 Signature verification
09:49 Create webhook endpoints
11:45 Stripe CLI `listen`
12:15 Implement a webhook handler that verifies signatures
17:52 Conclusion

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