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Hooksmith is a gem that allows you to handle webhooks in your Rails application. It provides a simple and flexible way to receive, validate, and process webhooks from various services. With Hooksmith, you can easily configure webhook endpoints, handle authentication, retry failed webhooks, and manage webhook payloads in a consistent manner.
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Hooksmith

Hooksmith is a modular, Rails-friendly gem for processing webhooks. It allows you to register multiple processors for different providers and events, ensuring that only one processor handles a given payload. If multiple processors qualify, an error is raised to avoid ambiguous behavior.

Features

  • DSL for Registration: Group processors by provider and event.
  • Flexible Dispatcher: Dynamically selects the appropriate processor based on payload conditions.
  • Rails Integration: Automatically configures with Rails using a Railtie.
  • Lightweight Logging: Built-in logging that can be switched to Rails.logger when in a Rails environment.
  • Tested with Minitest: 100% branch coverage for robust behavior.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'hooksmith', '~> 0.1.1'

Then execute:

bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

gem install hooksmith

Usage

Configuration

Configure your webhook processors in an initializer (e.g., config/initializers/hooksmith.rb):

Hooksmith.configure do |config|
  config.provider(:stripe) do |stripe|
    stripe.register(:charge_succeeded, 'Stripe::Processor::ChargeSucceeded::First')
    stripe.register(:charge_succeeded, 'Stripe::Processor::ChargeSucceeded::Second')
  end

  config.provider(:paypal) do |paypal|
    paypal.register(:payment_received, 'Paypal::Processor::PaymentReceived')
  end
end

Implementing a Processor

Create a processor by inheriting from Hooksmith::Processor::Base:

module Stripe
  module Processor
    module ChargeSucceeded
      class Tenant < Hooksmith::Processor::Base
        # Only handle events with a tenant_payment_id.
        def can_handle?(payload)
          payload.dig("metadata", "id").present?
        end

        def process!
          tenant_payment_id = payload.dig("metadata", "id")
          # Add your business logic here (e.g., update database records).
          puts "Processed id : #{id}"
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

Dispatching a Webhook

Use the dispatcher in your webhook controller:

class WebhooksController < ApplicationController
  skip_before_action :verify_authenticity_token

  def receive
    provider = params[:provider] || "stripe"
    event    = params[:event]    || "charge_succeeded"
    payload  = params[:data]     # Adjust extraction as needed

    Hooksmith::Dispatcher.new(provider: provider, event: event, payload: payload).run!
    head :ok
  rescue Hooksmith::MultipleProcessorsError => e
    render json: { error: e.message }, status: :unprocessable_entity
  rescue StandardError => e
    render json: { error: e.message }, status: :internal_server_error
  end
end

Testing

The gem includes a full test suite using Minitest with 100% branch coverage. See the test/ directory for examples. You can run the tests with:

bundle exec rake test

If you want to check test coverage, you can integrate SimpleCov by adding the following at the top of your test/test_helper.rb:

require "simplecov"
SimpleCov.start

Then run the tests to generate a coverage report.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/gregorypreve/hooksmith.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.