So, we will start with the last question first. Growl takes two parts, someone sending us notifications, and something to display them. With apps which use our framework, notes can be displayed using Growl if available, our own framework display system (Mist) or on machines with 10.8+, NotificationCenter. However, I know of no ruby gem that relies on our framework, or which have their own built in failovers to a display system like mist, or Notification-Center, only ones that use GNTP to talk to Growl.app.
Growl 1.3+ moved to a new networking protocol, GNTP as our primary notification pathway, there are a couple of gems out there that support it, https://github.com/snaka/ruby_gntp, and I think there are a couple of others (GNTP is also supported by Growl for Windows and Snarl). Additionally, Growl.app supports a number of plugins and customizations for your users, including actions for SMS, email, prowl, boxcar, text to speech, etc. On Nov 28, 9:04 pm, Neeraj Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I work with a non-profit that provides free online tutoring to kids and > essentially our system works as follows: > > A child will come on to our site and request a tutoring session by filling > out a quick form. After clicking submit, we'll see which tutors are > scheduled to work at that time and send them a text message and email to > alert them of the pending tutoring session. > > Now, I want to integrate growl into our system so that when a student > requests a tutoring session, a growl notification will appear on our tutors > computers. This would be awesome just in case they aren't near their > phones to receive the text message, a growl notification will still appear > on their computer screens. Is there a way to accomplish this using an > existing ruby gem? I've searched around for a lot of gems and found some, > but I'm not a tech expert so I'm not sure if they'll fit my needs. > > And this may be a dumb question, but is it possible to accomplish this > without having our tutors install growl on their machines? > > Thanks so much. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
