Adding Stripe Payments to Your Ruby on Rails Application

2h 5mIntermediate2016-12-16

Authors

Chris Oliver

Ruby on Rails, Python, founder of GoRails and LaunchCode

Course details

Add Stripe to your Ruby on Rails application to collect payments from your users. Stripe allows developers to add Payment Card Industry-compliant ecommerce functionality without having to implement complicated security. The result is an efficient and secure app experience, with fully encrypted token-based transactions that allow you to charge for content on a monthly or annual basis. In this course, Chris Oliver teaches you how to build a Rails app with paid content, securely collect credit card numbers, charge your users for a subscription to your site, and give them access to the paid content, all with Stripe.js and the Stripe Ruby gem. You'll also learn how to allow customers to unsubscribe and resubscribe from the app, and create PDF receipts for charges.

Learning objectives
Adding users and products to the application
Creating a checkout form
Creating and sending card tokens
Subscribing the customer
Charging the customer
Allowing users to update payment info, cancel, and resubscribe
Adding receipts with webhooks

Skills covered

Stripe APIStripeRuby on RailsBack-End Web DevelopmentFull-Stack Web DevelopmentProjectWeb DevelopmentOpen Source

Concepts

1. Introducing the Course

01 - What we'll be covering
02 - What you need to know
03 - Using the exercise files

2. Building the Application

04 - Adding products
05 - Adding users
06 - Setting up Bootstrap

3. Creating the Checkout Form with Stripe.js

07 - Signing up for Stripe
08 - Adding a new subscription page
09 - Creating a card token using Stripe.js
10 - Sending a card token to the server
11 - Making it turbolinks compatible

4. Charging the Customer Server-Side

12 - Installing the Stripe gem
13 - Creating a plan in Stripe
14 - Creating a customer in Stripe
15 - Subscribing the customer in Stripe
16 - Handling card errors
17 - Protecting products for only paid users

5. Allowing Users to Update Their Card

18 - Displaying the subscription and card on file
19 - Reusing the payment form

6. Allowing Users to Cancel and Resubscribe

20 - Cancelling a subscription
21 - Resubscribing using a new card
22 - Resubscribing using an existing card

7. Adding Receipts with Webhooks

23 - Adding the stripe event gem
24 - Listening to a charge.succeeded event
25 - Creating a charge model
26 - Displaying charges in the account page
27 - Making PDF receipts
28 - Rendering PDF receipts

Conclusion

29 - Next steps