EventMachine APN Connection Manager, The purpose is to support multiple cert and multiple application with one process. It use redis pubsub to get message from application, then send message to apple, also kept the connection to APNS server, so it won't be blocked by apple.

1. Add below line to Gemfile:

gem 'em_apn_manager', git: 'git@github.com:hlxwell/em_apn_manager.git'

2. Generate config/em_apn_manager.yml file:

bundle exec rails g event_machine:apn_manager:install

3. Run the server

bundle exec em_apn_manager server -e development

1. Install em_apn_manager gem

gem install em_apn_manager

2. Run

// read redis from url
em_apn_manager server -r redis://localhost:6379/em_apn_manager

or

// read redis config from config
em_apn_manager server -c CONFIG_FILE_PATH -e development

EM::ApnManager.push_notification({
  env: CERT_ENVIRONMENT,
  cert: PEM_CERT_TEXT_CONTENT,
  token: DEVICE_TOKEN,
  message: YOUR_MESSAGE
})

or if you don't need to install em_apn_manager in your project, you can do this:

your_redis_instance.publish "push-notification", {
  env: "development",
  cert: cert,
  token: options[:token],
  message: options[:message]
}.to_json

If you want to run server in background:

em_apn_manager server --daemon --pid_file /PATH/TO/PID

or

em_apn_manager server -d -p /PATH/TO/PID

This is the Tutorial for how to get p12 file.

You have to convert p12 format to pem format by below command line.

openssl pkcs12 -in cert.p12 -out cert.pem -nodes -clcerts