How to add Notifications to Rails with Noticed

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Adding notifications to Rails has been something I've dreaded for years. Building Jumpstart Pro, I wanted to add notifications, but if I was going to add them, I wanted to do it "right".
Noticed is the gem I created to handle notifications for Rails apps. You can define all your notifications and organize the logic needed to deliver them in one place. They can be delivered to many different delivery methods, each running in their own background job. This allows you to handle failures gracefully without duplicates.
I wanted this gem to be easy to customize, so we've tried to add all the features you'd want out of the box. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

[@nimashariatian2884]

Chris you are a Saint! Thank you so much for supporting the Rails community!

[@GorailsTV]

Thanks Nima!

[@antonina8379]

hi Chris just wanted to thank you for your work. Very nice, simple and efficient, Noticed is great for all of us.

[@lucaskuhn7884]

Another great tutorial! Thank you Chris

[@juliancheal]

I just started implementing notifications, so this will be much better as I still needed to do the different types of notifications. Thank you!

[@GorailsTV]

Awesome! Let me know how it goes!

[@juliancheal]

@@GorailsTV Hey Chris. Few bumps along the way, I will try and write it up to add to the readme, but I've added, db, ActionCable, Email, & Twilio. Where as my existing design, just had db, and ActionCable via creating an Sidekiq job. So you've helped to simply my codebase, *and* make it easier to add extra delivery services. Many many thanks!

[@GorailsTV]

@@juliancheal That's awesome to hear! Thanks for filing that GitHub issue btw! It's got a lot we can improve, but I feel like it's a solid foundation we can build on.

[@yeinercarvajalquina7727]

This is very useful, thank a lot, you are master!

[@chibuezeayogu538]

Hi, great tutorial. Please can we get a link to the repo if was published?

[@whyimustusemyrealname3801]

hi chris could you give example how to use read_at ? how to update it when our user read the notif?

[@thelinuxguy213]

Thanks for this clear and very helpful tutorial and i was wondering if you could make the .md files on github for each delivery methods more detailed that would be very helpful, thanks

[@ashwinm4u]

You bet we will be on the github issues ;)

[@hasannadeem8451]

Hi Chris, how is the Actioncable support going to handle notifications for individual users? i.e how does it create/know the stream of the given or the default channel to which it is supposed to send the message? Does it make use of the current_user attribute to handle the stream creation/finding?

[@GorailsTV]

Yep, it uses the current user as the stream so when you send to that stream, that user will receive the message.

[@JustBCWi]

Updating this for Turbostream?

[@GorailsTV]

Great idea! Really the only change would be to add an ID to the navbar and broadcast lines to the model so the append can publish to the navbar. Nothing Noticed specific really. 👍

[@axelb423]

@@GorailsTV +1 for a turbo stream notif system.

[@kiyooswrld7420]

Hi. Can you share your vimrc?

[@DevBishwasBh]

Is it still functional with Rails 7?

[@GorailsTV]

Of course, why wouldn't it be?

[@DevBishwasBh]

@@GorailsTV Indeed it is. I was in Ruby 2.7 so got some issues, now with Ruby3.0.0, it's cool.

[@yishat.lunamartinez6908]

Is there a way to send the notifications to a cellphone from rails?

[@GorailsTV]

Yeah, You can send push notifications from rails.