Growl

Ruby growlnotify ‘bindings’.

Examples

notification = Growl.new
notification.message = 'Hello World'
notification.sticky!
notification.icon = :jpeg
notification.run if Growl.installed?

# OR

Growl.notify {
  self.message = 'Hello World'
  self.icon = :jpeg
  sticky!
}

# OR

Growl.notify do |n|
  n.message = 'Hello World'
  n.icon = :jpeg
  n.stick!
end

# OR

Growl.notify 'Foo', :icon => :jpeg, :title => 'Growl'

# OR

include Growl
notify 'Email received', :sticky => true

# Convenience methods

notify_ok 'Deployment successful'
notify_info 'Email received'
notify_warning 'Merge required'
notify_error 'Failed to send email', :sticky => true

Normaized Icons

The :icon option key is automatically normalized when you use any of the Growl#notify methods, this removes the need to explicitly use :appIcon, :image, etc.

notify 'App icon', :icon => :Safari
notify 'Jpeg icon', :icon => :jpeg 
notify 'Image icon', :icon => 'path/to/image.png' 
notify 'Icns icon', :icon => 'path/to/icon.icns'
notify 'Path extname icon', :icon => 'foo.rb'

Normalised icons only work on OSX.

To support OSX and Windows always give a path to an image, e.g. 

:image => 'path/to/image.png'

Features

  • Packaged with growlnotify (so notificatons always available)

  • Support for Growl for Windows

  • Wraps growlnotify to avoid dropped notificatons on OSX

  • Use images, icon paths, application icons, or file format icons

  • Sticky a notification making it appear until explicitly closed

  • Set notification priority

  • Convenience methods such as notify_ok, notify_warning, notify_error, and notify_info

  • Etc (consult growlnotify –help)

Known Issues

Not all switches work on Windows. Unsupported switches are:

:iconpath
:appIcon
:icon
:udp
:crypt

Contribute

Fork / send a pull request or submit a ticket at: github.com/visionmedia/growl/issues

License:

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2009 TJ Holowaychuk <[email protected]>

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, an d/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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