Show HN: Stripe Tester - Gem To Test Stripe Webhooks Locally

https://github.com/buttercloud/stripe_tester

by luaybs • 13 years ago

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nayefmuhiar• 13 years ago

Finally someone made this, great work

fhirzall• 13 years ago

Feras from buttercloud here (author is my co-worker).

We have a complex application that heavily interacts with webhooks - that's what prompted us to create StripeTester. We can now easily spec out the interactions and set expectations when a webhook is received. A side benefit is that this can be used without connectivity and really cleans up our test suite.

Previously, we used Requestbin for manual webhook testing, and made heavy use of Mocha for stubbing. This required us to maintain fixtures and test data to simulate Stripe's.

There's also https://github.com/mindeavor/stripe-ruby-mock that provides some testing hooks (although repo says it's incomplete). We're planning on keeping the webhook data up-to-date when Stripe releases newer versions.

sidchilling2• 13 years ago

What are the values in the body that is sent in a webhook? Are those dummy values.

Mostly, in response of a Stripe webhook, one would want to do something based on the id. For instance, for a charge failed event, one would like to retrieve the customer for which the charge has failed and would retrieve the customer details from Stripe. Dummy values will not help here.

Just thinking aloud, how would one use this? I have been in need for something to test Stripe webhooks.

luaybs2• 13 years ago

You can specify values to overwrite the dummy data. For example:

StripeTester.create_event(:charge_failed, {"id" => "your_customer_id"})

This will overwrite the first occurrence of the key. I'm working towards solving this issue. Maybe have the user specify which parent object the key is in. Anyway, pull requests are welcome.

sidchilling2• 13 years ago

Ah.. okay.

jpadilla_• 13 years ago

This is very awesome and super useful! When you rely heavily on Stripe events it can get out of control. Stripe needs a doc with real world scenarios and what events get called. I'm definitely going to try and port this to Python.

luaybs2• 13 years ago

This is exactly why we decided to make this gem. Looking forward to the port.

aculver• 13 years ago

Thank you so much! I maintain a gem for drop-in subscription support which integrates with Stripe[1], and improving test coverage and implementing more robust webhooks support has been on my to-do list for a few months now. Seeing this on HN is like receiving a pull request for half of that work. Thanks, again! :-)

[1] http://github.com/andrewculver/koudoku

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