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Prowl

Prowl is awesome. Growl notifications can be forwarded to your iPhone.

But you can get notifications from anywhere. A Perl script is included, but that didn’t work on my server. So I wrote one in Ruby:

 1 #! /usr/bin/ruby
 2 
 3 # A ruby class for sending notifications to Prowl.
 4 
 5 require 'uri'
 6 require 'net/http'
 7 require 'net/https'
 8 
 9 class String
10   def urlencode
11     gsub( /[^a-zA-Z0-9\-_\.!~*'()]/n ) {|x| sprintf('%%%02x', x[0]) }
12   end
13 end
14 
15 class Hash
16   def urlencode
17     collect { |k,v| "#{k.to_s.urlencode}=#{v.to_s.urlencode}" }.join('&')
18   end
19 end
20 
21 class Prowler
22   def initialize user, pass
23     @url = URI.parse('https://prowl.weks.net/api/add_notification.php')
24     @username = user
25     @password = pass
26     
27     @http = Net::HTTP.new(@url.host, @url.port)
28     @http.use_ssl = true
29   end
30 
31   def send_notification app, evt, desc
32     
33 
34     options = {
35       'application' => app,
36       'event' => evt,
37       'description' => desc
38     }
39     
40     req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("#{@url.path}?#{options.urlencode}")
41     req.basic_auth @username, @password
42     @http.request(req)
43   end
44 
45 end
46 
47 # How to use?
48 # p = Prowler.new('username', 'password')
49 # p.send_notification('App','Event','Desc')