Rack::PushNotification

A Rack-mountable webservice for managing push notifications

Rack::PushNotification generates API endpoints that can be consumed by iOS apps to register and unregister for push notifications.

Example Record

`token`	"ce8be627 2e43e855 16033e24 b4c28922 0eeda487 9c477160 b2545e95 b68b5969"
`alias`	[email protected]
`badge`	0
`locale`	en_US
`language`	en
`timezone`	America/Los_Angeles
`ip_address`	0.0.0.0
`lat`	37.7716
`lng`	-122.4137
`tags`	`["iPhone OS 6.0", "v1.0", "iPhone"]`

Each device has a token, which uniquely identifies the app installation on a particular device. This token can be associated with an alias, which can be a domain-specific piece of identifying information, such as a username or e-mail address. A running badge count is used to keep track of the badge count to show on the app icon.

A device's locale & language can be used to localize outgoing communications to that particular user. Having timezone information gives you the ability to schedule messages for an exact time of day, to ensure maximum impact (and minimum annoyance). ip_address as well as lat and lng allows you to specifically target users according to their geographic location.

It is strongly recommended that you use Rack::PushNotification in conjunction with some sort of Rack authentication middleware, so that the administration endpoints are not accessible without some form of credentials.

Example Usage

Rack::PushNotification can be run as Rack middleware or as a single web application. All that is required is a connection to a Postgres database. You must define this with the environment variable DATABASE_URL. For rails, use the rails-database-url to define this from the database.yml.

config.ru

require 'bundler'
Bundler.require

run Rack::PushNotification

An example application can be found in the /example directory of this repository.

iOS Client Library

To get the full benefit of Rack::PushNotification, use the Orbiter library to register for Push Notifications on iOS.

#import "Orbiter.h"

- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application
didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken
{
    NSURL *serverURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://raging-notification-3556.herokuapp.com/"]
    Orbiter *orbiter = [[Orbiter alloc] initWithBaseURL:serverURL credential:nil];
    [orbiter registerDeviceToken:deviceToken withAlias:nil success:^(id responseObject) {
        NSLog(@"Registration Success: %@", responseObject);
    } failure:^(NSError *error) {
        NSLog(@"Registration Error: %@", error);
    }];
}

Deployment

Rack::PushNotification can be deployed to Heroku with the following commands:

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master

Contact

Mattt Thompson

License

Rack::PushNotification is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.

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