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:
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#! /usr/bin/ruby
# A ruby class for sending notifications to Prowl.
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'net/https'
class String
def urlencode
gsub( /[^a-zA-Z0-9\-_\.!~*'()]/n ) {|x| sprintf('%%%02x', x[0]) }
end
end
class Hash
def urlencode
collect { |k,v| "#{k.to_s.urlencode}=#{v.to_s.urlencode}" }.join('&')
end
end
class Prowler
def initialize user, pass
@url = URI.parse('https://prowl.weks.net/api/add_notification.php')
@username = user
@password = pass
@http = Net::HTTP.new(@url.host, @url.port)
@http.use_ssl = true
end
def send_notification app, evt, desc
options = {
'application' => app,
'event' => evt,
'description' => desc
}
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("#{@url.path}?#{options.urlencode}")
req.basic_auth @username, @password
@http.request(req)
end
end
# How to use?
# p = Prowler.new('username', 'password')
# p.send_notification('App','Event','Desc')
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