= 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

== Turn a Growl notification into an active url

notification = Growl.new
notification.message = ‘I am an active url.’
notification.url = ‘http://www.example.com’
notification.sticky!
notification.run if Growl.installed?

Now when you launch your notification the Growl message will be an active url
to take you to http://www.example.com as if you had run from the command line:

growlnotify -m ‘I am an active url’ --url ‘http://www.example.com’

== Custom path to growlnotify

If needed you can set a path to the binary with:

Growl.bin_path = ‘~/my/path/to/growlnotify’

right after you require the growl library.

== Normalized 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’

== Features

• Check availability with Growl.installed?
• Check dependencies with Growl.version
• 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)

== Installing growlnotify

Visit http://growl.info/documentation.php for installation help.
Visit http://growl.info/downloads for download.

== Known Issues

It seems that growlnotify will essentially ignore or block excessive usage
of the notifications at random. To prevent this you may need to do something like
below if you are calling many in sequence:

notify ‘Something’; sleep 0.2
notify_ok ‘Updated’; sleep 0.2
notify_info ‘You have new mail’; sleep 0.2
notify_warning ‘Merged required’; sleep 0.2
notify_error ‘Oh Noes!’; sleep 0.2

== Contribute

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

== License:

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2009 TJ Holowaychuk [email protected]

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