Rails 3 notification service and apple push

Question

Has anyone been able to send push notification to iPhone using rails 3? APN on rails and the samesoffes plugin only works with rails 2. I am new to rails and I have not been able to get any of them to work.

Here are the errors I encountered:

APN on Rails:

tried to replace

ruby script/generate apn_migrations 

FROM

 rails generate apn_migrations 

got:

MYAPP / config / environment.rb: 5: in `require ': there is no such file to load - apn_on_rails (LoadError)

I was also unable to start the configuration "config.gem" apn_on_rails "(config.gem: command not found)

Samsoffes Plugin:

I was unable to configure the gem:

 config.gem "apple_push_notification", :source => "http://gemcutter.org/" 

gave me:

http://gemcutter.org/ : no such file or directory

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks Vincent

Answer 1

I had the same problem, I used the rails3 branch

gem 'apn_on_rails' ,: git => 'https://github.com/natescherer/apn_on_rails.git' ,: branch => 'rails3'

This solved my problem and I wrote the details on my blog

http://yekmer.posterous.com/how-to-send-iphone-push-notifications-in-rail

Answer 2

I wrote an apn_on_rails replacement called Rpush specifically designed for Rails 3. I also added many additional features, such as persistent APN connections (as recommended by Apple). Frequent connections / disconnections may force you to prohibit the use of APN, as apn_on_rails works now.

Rpush: https://github.com/rpush/rpush

Answer 3

There is no config.gem in rails 3 ... Open your Gemfile :

 gem 'apple_push_notification', :git => 'http://gemcutter.org/path_to_that_gem_on_gem_cutter.git'