Notifications

Mountable notifications for any Rails applications.

Example:

Installation

# Gemfile Rails ~> 5
gem 'notifications', '~> 0.6.0'
# Gemfile for Rails ~> 4.2
gem 'notifications', '~> 0.5.0'

And then run bundle install.

You now have a notifications generator in your Rails application:

$ rails g notifications:install

You can generate views, controllers if you need to customize them:

$ rails g notifications:views
$ rails g notifications:controllers

Usage

Create a Notification

class User
  def follow(user)
    Notification.create(notify_type: 'follow', actor: self, user: user)
  end
end

class Comment
  belongs_to :post
  belongs_to :user

  after_commit :create_notifications, on: [:create]
  def create_notifications
    Notification.create(
      notify_type: 'comment',
      actor: self.user,
      user: self.post.user,
      target: self)
  end
end

Get unread notifications count for a user:

count = Notification.unread_count(current_user)

Write your custom Notification partial view for notify_types:

If you create a notify_type, you need to add a partial view in app/views/notifications/ path, for example:

# There have two notify_type
Notification.create(notify_type: 'follow' ....)
Notification.create(notify_type: 'mention', target: @reply, second_target: @topic, ....)

Your app must have:

• app/views/notifications/_follow.html.erb
• app/views/notifications/_mention.html.erb

# app/views/notifications/_follow.html.erb
<div class="media-heading">
  <%= link_to notification.actor.title, main_app.user_path(notification.actor) %> just followed you.
</div>

# app/views/notifications/_mention.html.erb
<div class="media-heading">
  <%= link_to notification.actor.title, main_app.user_path(notification.actor) %> has mentioned you in
  <%= link_to notification.second_target.title, main_app.topic_path(notification.second_target) %>
</div>
<div class="media-content">
  <%= notification.target.body %>
</div>

NOTE: When you want use Rails route path name in notification views, you must use main_app prefix. etc: main_app.user_path(user)

About Notification template N+1 performance

It is recommended that you use second_level_cache for solving N+1 performance issues.

Contributing

Testing for multiple Rails versions:

make test_51
# or test all
make test

Site Used

• Ruby China

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.