= Notifier

Send system notifications on several platforms with a simple and unified API. Currently supports:

* Growl (Mac OS X)
* GNTP Protocol (Growl, with Vagrant support)
* Kdialog (Linux/KDE)
* Knotify (Linux/KDE)
* OSD Cat (Linux)
* Libnotify (Linux)
* Snarl (Windows)

== Installation

  gem install notifier

=== Mac OS X

* Install Growl - http://growl.info/
* Install the growlnotify script located on the "Extras" directory
* Open the Growl Preference Panel (System > Growl) and activate "Listen for incoming notifications" and "Allow remote application registration" options on the Network tab.

=== Linux

If you're a linux guy, you can choose one of these methods:

* Install libnotify-bin and its dependencies: <tt>sudo aptitude install libnotify-bin</tt>
* Install xosd-bin: <tt>sudo aptitude install xosd-bin</tt>
* KDE users don't need to install anything: Test Notifier will use +knotify+ or +kdialog+.

=== Windows

* Install Snarl: download from http://www.fullphat.net
* Install ruby-snarl: <tt>gem install ruby-snarl</tt>

== Usage

Notifier will try to detect which notifiers are available in your system. So you can just send a message:

  Notifier.notify(
    :image   => "image.png",
    :title   => "Testing Notifier",
    :message => "Sending an important message!"
  )

Not all notifiers support the image option, therefore it will be ignored.

If your system support more than one notifier, you can specify which one you prefer:

  Notifier.default_notifier = :notify_send

The available names are <tt>growl</tt>, <tt>kdialog</tt>, <tt>knotify</tt>, <tt>notify_send</tt>, <tt>osd_cat</tt>, and <tt>snarl</tt>.

There are several helper methods that you can use in order to retrieve notifiers.

* <tt>Notifier.notifier</tt>: return the first supported notifier
* <tt>Notifier.notifiers</tt>: return all notifiers
* <tt>Notifier.supported_notifiers</tt>: return only supported notifiers
* <tt>Notifier.from_name(name)</tt>: find notifier by its name
* <tt>Notifier.supported_notifier_from_name(name)</tt>: find a supported notifier by its name

== Creating custom notifiers

To create a new notifier, just create a module on <tt>Notifier</tt> namespace that implements the following interface:

  module Notifier
    module MyCustomNotifier
      def self.supported?
      end

      def self.notify(options)
      end
    end
  end

== Maintainer

* Nando Vieira - http://nandovieira.com.br

== Contributors

* Olek Janiszewski
* David Miani

== License

(The MIT License)

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