pushit¶ ↑

Pushit sends push notifications to mobile devices.

Why another gem?¶ ↑

There are some gems that let you do push notifications but I wasn’t fully satisfied with them.

• github.com/samsoffes/apple_push_notification works as an AR plugin, a mixin to any object, or by calling a class method. It doesn’t offer a DSL and has no tests.

• github.com/PRX/apn_on_rails is based on Sam’s plugin and seems to have good test coverage. However it is an AR plugin and stores every notification in the database which seems unnecessary.

• github.com/thegeekbird/Apns4r has no tests but looks mature otherwise. No DSL.

The main design goals of this gem are:

• Easy to use DSL

• Not an AR plugin

• Extensible architecture to support other mobile devices.

How to use¶ ↑

Pushit.config.apple_certificate = File.read('your_apn_cert.pem')
Pushit.config.environment = :production	# The default is :development, which will use the sandbox servers.

Pushit.deliver do |n|
  n.device_type :iPhone
  n.device_token '<42234223 42234223 42234223 42234223 42234223 42234223 42234223 42234223>'
  n.alert '3 new messages!'
  n.badge 3
  n.sound 'foo.aiff'
  n.custom_data {'foo' => 'bar'}
end

Note on Patches/Pull Requests¶ ↑

• Fork the project.

• Make your feature addition or bug fix.

• Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright © 2010 Tobi Knaup. See LICENSE for details.