Rpush. The push notification service for Ruby.

Rpush aims to be the de facto gem for sending push notifications in Ruby. Its core goals are ease of use, reliability and a rich feature set. Rpush provides numerous advanced features not found in others gems, giving you greater control & insight as your project grows. These are a few of the reasons why companies worldwide rely on Rpush to deliver their notifications.

Supported Services

• Apple Push Notification Service
  • Including Safari Push Notifications.
• Google Cloud Messaging
• Amazon Device Messaging
• Windows Phone Push Notification Service

Feature Highlights

• Use ActiveRecord, Redis or MongoDB for storage.
• Plugins for Bugsnag, Sentry, StatsD or write your own.
• Seamless integration with your projects, including Rails.
• Run as a daemon, inside a job queue, on the command-line or embedded in another process.
• Scales vertically (threading) and horizontally (multiple processes).
• Designed for uptime - new apps are loaded automatically, signal HUP to update running apps.
• Hooks for fine-grained instrumentation and error handling (Reflection API).
• Works with MRI, JRuby and Rubinius.

Getting Started

Add it to your Gemfile:

gem 'rpush'

Initialize Rpush into your project. Rails will be detected automatically.

$ cd /path/to/project
$ bundle
$ bundle exec rpush init

Create an App & Notification

Apple Push Notification Service

If this is your first time using the APNs, you will need to generate SSL certificates. See Generating Certificates for instructions.

app = Rpush::Apns::App.new
app.name = "ios_app"
app.certificate = File.read("/path/to/sandbox.pem")
app.environment = "development" # APNs environment.
app.password = "certificate password"
app.connections = 1
app.save!

n = Rpush::Apns::Notification.new
n.app = Rpush::Apns::App.find_by_name("ios_app")
n.device_token = "..." # 64-character hex string
n.alert = "hi mom!"
n.data = { foo: :bar }
n.save!

The url_args attribute is available for Safari Push Notifications.

You should also implement the ssl_certificate_will_expire reflection to monitor when your certificate is due to expire.

To use the newer APNs Api replace Rpush::Apns::App with Rpush::Apns2::App.

Google Cloud Messaging

app = Rpush::Gcm::App.new
app.name = "android_app"
app.auth_key = "..."
app.connections = 1
app.save!

n = Rpush::Gcm::Notification.new
n.app = Rpush::Gcm::App.find_by_name("android_app")
n.registration_ids = ["..."]
n.data = { message: "hi mom!" }
n.priority = 'high'        # Optional, can be either 'normal' or 'high'
n.content_available = true # Optional
# Optional notification payload. See the reference below for more keys you can use!
n.notification = { body: 'great match!',
                   title: 'Portugal vs. Denmark',
                   icon: 'myicon'
                 }
n.save!

GCM also requires you to respond to Canonical IDs.

Check the GCM reference for what keys you can use and are available to you. Note: Not all are yet implemented in Rpush.

Amazon Device Messaging

app = Rpush::Adm::App.new
app.name = "kindle_app"
app.client_id = "..."
app.client_secret = "..."
app.connections = 1
app.save!

n = Rpush::Adm::Notification.new
n.app = Rpush::Adm::App.find_by_name("kindle_app")
n.registration_ids = ["..."]
n.data = { message: "hi mom!"}
n.collapse_key = "Optional consolidationKey"
n.save!

For more documentation on ADM.

Windows Phone Notification Service (Windows Phone 8.0 and 7.x)

Uses the older Windows Phone 8 Toast template

app = Rpush::Wpns::App.new
app.name = "windows_phone_app"
app.client_id = # Get this from your apps dashboard https://dev.windows.com
app.client_secret = # Get this from your apps dashboard https://dev.windows.com
app.connections = 1
app.save!

n = Rpush::Wpns::Notification.new
n.app = Rpush::Wpns::App.find_by_name("windows_phone_app")
n.uri = "http://..."
n.data = {title:"MyApp", body:"Hello world", param:"user_param1"}
n.save!

Windows Notification Service (Windows 8.1, 10 Apps & Phone > 8.0)

Uses the more recent Toast template

The client_id here is the SID URL as seen here. Do not confuse it with the client_id on dashboard.

You can (optionally) include a launch argument by adding a launch key to the notification data.

You can (optionally) include an audio element by setting the sound on the notification.

app = Rpush::Wns::App.new
app.name = "windows_phone_app"
app.client_id = YOUR_SID_URL
app.client_secret = YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET
app.connections = 1
app.save!

n = Rpush::Wns::Notification.new
n.app = Rpush::Wns::App.find_by_name("windows_phone_app")
n.uri = "http://..."
n.data = {title:"MyApp", body:"Hello world", launch:"launch-argument"}
n.sound = "ms-appx:///mynotificationsound.wav"
n.save!

Windows Raw Push Notifications

Note: The data is passed as .to_json so only this format is supported, altough raw notifications are meant to support any kind of data. Current data structure enforces hashes and .to_json representation is natural presentation of it.

n = Rpush::Wns::RawNotification.new
n.app = Rpush::Wns::App.find_by_name("windows_phone_app")
n.uri = 'http://...'
n.data = { foo: 'foo', bar: 'bar' }
n.save!

Windows Badge Push Notifications

Uses the badge template and the type wns/badge.

n = Rpush::Wns::BadgeNotification.new
n.app = Rpush::Wns::App.find_by_name("windows_phone_app")
n.uri = 'http://...'
n.badge = 4
n.save!

Running Rpush

It is recommended to run Rpush as a separate process in most cases, though embedding and manual modes are provided for low-workload environments.

See rpush help for all available commands and options.

As a daemon

$ cd /path/to/project
$ rpush start

On the command-line

$ rpush push

Rpush will deliver all pending notifications and then exit.

In a scheduled job

Rpush.push
Rpush.apns_feedback

See Push API for more details.

Embedded inside an existing process

if defined?(Rails)
  ActiveSupport.on_load(:after_initialize) do
    Rpush.embed
  end
else
  Rpush.embed
end

Call this during startup of your application, for example, by adding it to the end of config/rpush.rb. See Embedding API for more details.

Using mina

If you're using mina, there is a gem called mina-rpush which helps you control rpush.

Configuration

See Configuration for a list of options.

Updating Rpush

You should run rpush init after upgrading Rpush to check for configuration and migration changes.

From The Wiki

General

• Using Redis
• Using ActiveRecord
• Configuration
• Moving from Rapns
• Deploying to Heroku
• Hot App Updates
• Signals
• Reflection API
• Push API
• Embedding API
• Writing a Plugin
• Implementing your own storage backend
• Upgrading from 2.x to 3.0

Apple Push Notification Service

• Generating Certificates
• Advanced APNs Features
• APNs Delivery Failure Handling
• Why open multiple connections to the APNs?
• Silent failures might be dropped connections

Google Cloud Messaging

• Notification Options
• Canonical IDs
• Delivery Failures & Retries

Contributing

When running specs, please note that the ActiveRecord adapter can be changed by setting the ADAPTER environment variable. For example: ADAPTER=postgresql rake.

Available adapters for testing are postgresql, jdbcpostgresql, mysql2, jdbcmysql, jdbch2, and sqlite3.

Note that the database username is changed at runtime to be the currently logged in user's name. So if you're testing with mysql and you're using a user named 'bob', you will need to grant a mysql user 'bob' access to the 'rpush_test' mysql database.

To switch between ActiveRecord and Redis, set the CLIENT environment variable to either active_record, redis or mongoid.