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safit is a command line utility to send notifications. It can be used to notify when a long running command is finished for example. Because when your command is fully baked, its time to stick a fork in it.

safit is roughly short for (S)tick (a) (f)ork (i)n i(t).

• ruby version >= 1.9
• growl version >= 1.3

I'd be nice if this could be distributed as a stand alone binary or something. But since it's not...

$ gem install safit

Then run like:

$ safit

This should send growl a message saying "done".

If using rvm, this is a nice way to make the executable available globally (with rvm version 1.20.7):

$ rvm wrapper ruby-1.9.3@whatever --no-prefix safit

There are three ways to use this.

$ safit

This will send the message "done" to growl.

$ safit notify MESSAGE

This will send MESSAGE to growl. A good use is for something like this:

$ long_running_job.sh; safit notify "long running job is done"

This will send the message to growl when long_running_job.sh is done.

$ safit exec sleep 5

This will send a notification when the /bin/sleep command is finished.

A caveat If using the rvm wrapper, a command that also uses rvm probably won't work because it'll be run under a modified rvm environment.

Growl should work without any configuration if running on the mac with growl installed.

For sending growl notifications to a mac from a remote host, some configuration is required. This can be done with a ~/.safitrc file which is in yaml format. Here's an example

# in ~/.safitrc
gntp:
  host: 'your_host_name'
  passwd: 'your_growl_password'

See Growl and safit HOWTO for more info and tips.