Ruby Growl Notifications

A Beta of the Ruby growl gem is now available at http://github.com/visionmedia/growl. A 'growl notification' is simply an unobtrusive notification which displays on the users screen like below:

growl mac

Mac applications commonly use growlnotify in order to achieve these results, allowing customization of the visuals through the System Preferences panel.

Features

  • Check availability with Growl#installed?
  • Check dependencies with Growl#version returning the binary's version
  • Use images, icon paths, application icons, or file format icons
  • Sticky a notification making it appear until explicitly closed
  • Set notification priority
  • Etc (consult growlnotify —help)

Notification Examples

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

  # OR

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

  # OR

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

  # OR

  Growl :message => 'Invoked via Growl with hash', :icon => 'jpeg', :title => 'Growl

Community Usage

One of our most popular gems Commander utilizes the growl notifications gem to effectively notify users of events using #notify, #notify_error, #notify_warning etc.

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