TerminalNotifier

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.

Installation

$ gem install terminal-notifier

Usage

For full information on all the options, see the tool’s README.

Examples are:

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

TerminalNotifier.remove(Process.pid)

TerminalNotifier.list(Process.pid)
TerminalNotifier.list

License

All the works are available under the MIT license. Except for ‘Terminal.icns’, which is a copy of Apple’s Terminal.app icon and as such is copyright of Apple.

See LICENSE for details.