Stripe Integration for Ruby on Rails

Rails conventions push Stripe logic toward service objects and background jobs rather than fat controllers — webhook processing in particular should hand off to ActiveJob (backed by Sidekiq or similar) immediately after signature verification, acknowledging Stripe's request quickly while the actual processing happens asynchronously.

Idiomatic Rails Patterns for Stripe

• Webhook controller does signature verification and enqueues a job — nothing more — to keep response times fast and retries safe
• Service objects encapsulate Stripe API calls (create subscription, process refund) rather than spreading Stripe SDK calls across controllers and models
• Stripe API keys stored via Rails encrypted credentials, never plain environment files or committed config
• Idempotency keys on job-enqueued Stripe calls, since ActiveJob retries on failure and a retried job shouldn't double-charge

This pattern — verify synchronously, process asynchronously, encapsulate in service objects — is the same shape we recommend across most backend frameworks, but Rails' conventions (ActiveJob, encrypted credentials, service objects as a first-class pattern) make it particularly natural to implement correctly from the start.