Apple Push Notification

This plugin helps you use the Apple Push Notification system.

Converting Your Certificate

Once you have the certificate from Apple for your application, export your key and the apple certificate as p12 files. Here is a quick walkthrough on how to do this:

1. Click the disclosure arrow next to your certificate in Keychain Access and select the certificate and the key.
2. Right click and choose Export 2 items....
3. Choose the p12 format from the drop down and name it cert.p12.

Now covert the p12 file to a pem file:

$ openssl pkcs12 -in cert.p12 -out apple_push_notification.pem -nodes -clcerts

Put apple_push_notification.pem in config/

Installing

Simply run the following commands to add apple-push-notification as a submodule to your repo, a plugin to your rails app, and install it.

$ cd ~/my_rails_app
$ script/plugin install add git://github.com/samsoffes/apple_push_notification.git
$ rake apn:migrate

Example

Note: the spaces in device_token are optional.

$ ./script/console
>> a = ApplePushNotification.new
>> a.device_token = "XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX"
>> a.badge = 5
>> a.sound = true
>> a.alert = "foobar"
>> a.send_notification
=> nil

Copyright (c) 2009 Fabien Penso. Released under the MIT license. Modified by Sam Soffes.