Testing Webhooks Locally

I wanted to be able to test webhooks locally so I didn’t have to keep deploying to code to test them.  The problem with testing webhooks is that the service (Stripe, Braintree, etc.) needs a URL to callback.  Ngrok is awesome, free software that allows you to test webhook callbacks locally by creating a tunnel that maps to your localhost address.

1. Download ngrok
2. Unzip the file
3. Run the executable
4. In the command prompt that comes up, type ‘ngrok http 3000’ (assuming that your local Rails app is running on port 3000 – i.e. localhost:3000), then enter
5. ngrok should return some URLs that map to localhost:3000
6. specify one of these URLs as the callback URL in your service’s settings

 

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