Notifier
Send system notifications on several platforms with a simple and unified API. Currently supports:
- terminal-notifier (Notification Center wrapper for Mac OS X)
- HUD
- Kdialog (Linux/KDE)
- Knotify (Linux/KDE)
- OSD Cat (Linux)
- Libnotify (Linux)
- Snarl (Windows)
Installation
gem install notifier
Mac OS X
terminal-notifier
- Install terminal-notifier - https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier
terminal-notifier also supports two additional flags:
subtitle
sound
See terminal-notifier's help for additional information.
hud
- Install HUD - https://fnando.gumroad.com/l/hud-macos
Linux
If you're a linux guy, you can choose one of these methods:
- Install libnotify-bin and its dependencies:
sudo aptitude install libnotify-bin
- Install xosd-bin:
sudo aptitude install xosd-bin
- KDE users don't need to install anything: Test Notifier will use +knotify+ or +kdialog+.
Windows
- Install Snarl: download from http://www.fullphat.net
- Install ruby-snarl:
gem install ruby-snarl
Usage
Notifier will try to detect which notifiers are available in your system. So you can just send a message:
Notifier.notify(
image: "image.png",
title: "Testing Notifier",
message: "Sending an important message!"
)
Not all notifiers support the image option, therefore it will be ignored.
If your system support more than one notifier, you can specify which one you prefer:
Notifier.default_notifier = :notify_send
Alternatively, you can set the default notifier by using the NOTIFIER
env var.
The following example assumes test_notifier
is configured on this Rails
project. The env var has precedence of Notifier.default_notifier
.
$ NOTIFIER=hud rails test
The available names are terminal_notifier
, kdialog
, knotify
,
notify_send
, osd_cat
, and snarl
.
There are several helper methods that you can use in order to retrieve notifiers.
-
Notifier.notifier
: return the first supported notifier -
Notifier.notifiers
: return all notifiers -
Notifier.supported_notifiers
: return only supported notifiers -
Notifier.from_name(name)
: find notifier by its name -
Notifier.supported_notifier_from_name(name)
: find a supported notifier by its name
Creating custom notifiers
To create a new notifier, just create a module on Notifier
namespace that
implements the following interface:
module Notifier
module MyCustomNotifier
def self.supported?
end
def self.notify(options)
end
end
end
Maintainer
- Nando Vieira - https://nandovieira.com
Contributors
https://github.com/fnando/notifier/graphs/contributors
License
(The MIT License)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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