Growl notifications from Ruby on OS X
I wanted to generate Growl notifications from a Ruby script on OSX and had a bit of trouble getting it to work. To save you the same hassle, here's the steps I took:
Install growl
Install Growl if you haven't already. I used version 1.2.
Set some growl preferences
In the growl preference plane (find it under System Preferences)
- under network check "Listen for incoming notifications" and "Allow remote application registration"
- restart growl
Install the ruby-growl gem
There's a couple of different ruby bindings for Growl but ruby-growl seemed to work for me
gem install ruby-growl
Send a growl notification from your Ruby script
You can now send notifications from Ruby
require 'rubygems' require 'ruby-growl' g = Growl.new "127.0.0.1", "ruby-growl", ["ruby-growl Notification"] g.notify "ruby-growl Notification", "It Came From Ruby-Growl", "Greetings!"
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