A simple Ruby wrapper around the terminal-notifier command-line tool, which allows you to send User Notifications to the Notification Center on Mac OS X 10.8, or higher.

This version has 4 different icons included for each status that Guard supports:

1. Failed
2. Notify
3. Pending
4. Success

This version depends on the official terminal-notifier. Install it with Homebrew or see the official Installation instructions.

$ brew install terminal-notifier

Then, install the gem

$ gem install terminal-notifier-guard

Or add it to your Gemfile:

gem 'terminal-notifier-guard', '~> 1.6.1'

As of version 1.6.1, we no longer bundle notifiers binaries in this gem. Please revert to version 1.5.3 for OSX 10.8 support.

You could also use the notifier directly.

Examples are:

TerminalNotifier::Guard.notify('Hello World')
TerminalNotifier::Guard.notify('Hello World', :title => 'Ruby', :subtitle => 'Programming Language')
TerminalNotifier::Guard.notify('Hello World', :activate => 'com.apple.Safari')
TerminalNotifier::Guard.notify('Hello World', :open => 'http://twitter.com/alloy')
TerminalNotifier::Guard.notify('Hello World', :execute => 'say "OMG"')
TerminalNotifier::Guard.notify('Hello World', :group => Process.pid)

TerminalNotifier::Guard.remove(Process.pid)

TerminalNotifier::Guard.list(Process.pid)
TerminalNotifier::Guard.list

TerminalNotifier::Guard.failed('This did not go well.')
TerminalNotifier::Guard.success('This did not go bad.')
TerminalNotifier::Guard.pending('This needs some work still')

All the works are available under the MIT license.

See LICENSE for details.

• @alloy (For the terminal-notifier)
• @railsme (For a clean way to test for OSX version #15)
• @jamilbx (For support for local terminal-notifier command #8)