SimpleNotification

SimpleNotification is a user notification system using tracked events. Event has a owner, recipient, trackable source, and a message.

Assumptions

SimpleNotification assumes a user systems is in place which uses the User model and has the current_user helper.

SimpleNotification also assumes that the Notification model is not taken.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'simple_notification'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install simple_notification

SimpleNotification generates the files in the /app folder, feel free to tweak it to fit specific needs.

First generate the necessary files:

$ rails g simple_notification

Add the routes for the view in /config/routes.rb:

resources :notifications

Add the following to /app/models/user.rb:

has_notifications

Add the following to any models that needs to be tracked:

can_be_tracked

And finally, add the following to /app/controllers/application_controller.rb:

include SimpleNotification::Methods

Now the setup is complete, the following are available:

Notifications generated by a user's activities:

@user.own_notifications

Notifications meant for a user:

@user.received_notifications

one can add .where(read: false) to obtain unread notifications

Method to notify a user of a tracked event:

notify(recipient, trackable, message)

which will generate a notification from current_user (guest if undefined) to the recipient with the message and trackable source.

Notifications are now working and can be displayed however desired, sample usages are:

render "notifications/show", notification_id: notification.id, read: false
render "notifications/show", notification_id: notification.id, read: true

Will will generate the following by default:

**Owner** message **Trackable** | This notification was sent to **Recipient** | Destroy

MIT License