Notifications

If a notification model (anything in app/notifications/) is renamed then existing notification records need to be updated.

Otherwise, #to_notification will raise an exception because it can't find the class to convert to.

For example, if NewDeveloperProfileNotification is renamed to Admin::NewDeveloperNotification then the following data migration will need to be run.

Notification.where(type: "NewDeveloperProfileNotification")
  .update_all(type: Admin::NewDeveloperNotification.to_s)

This can be added to lib/tasks/backfills.rake as a new task and manually run via the Heroku CLI.

iOS notifications (APNs)

To send a push notification via APNs to iOS devices, add the following to the notification class.

include IosNotification

Also, make sure that the following methods are implemented: #title, #ios_subject, and #url.

iOS Simulator

You can send notifications to the iOS simulator with a .apns file.

Boot the iOS app, sign in as developer@example.com, and run the following command to send a notification.

Change com.masilotti.railsdevs.io to your app's bundle identifier, if different.

xcrun simctl push booted com.masilotti.railsdevs.ios app/notifications/notification.apns