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Major changes

  • send_notifications method in PRX’s did not accept an array of notifications as paramter. It sends all unsent notifications.
  • Add APN::App. Put cert in database and allow you to send to multiple iOS apps with 1 rails app
  • Add APN::Group. Allow you to send group notifications. (But it still send one by one to Apple APN server)

Steps

Edit Gemfile

gem 'apn_on_rails'

And

bundle install

Migrateions

rails generate apn_on_rails:install
  • If it complains about some migrations have a same name, rename the old migrations and run again, delete the duplicated and rename back.
  • README says that maigration 002 create_apn_notifications was modified by hand and may cause a problem. See Upgrade Notes if needed.

And

rake db:migrate

Create first APN::App and move cert into database

Copy the content of /config/apple_push_notification_development.pem and apple_push_notification_production and save into APN::app#apn_dev_cert and APN::app#apn_prod_cert. See this post. (but you need to reslove the massive-assignment problem before running it on rails 3.2)

Modifiy APN::Notification.send_notifications and let it accept an array of notificaitons

Because that the natescherer:apn_on_rails folk accepts an array of notificaitons to send. But the PRX one are not. So I added it by hand.

Create config/initializers/apn_notification_reopen.rb

class APN::Notification

  # ...

  def self.send_notifications(notifications = APN::Notification.where("sent_at is null"))
    app_ids = notifications.map {|n| n.device.app_id }.uniq
    app_ids.each do |app_id|
      begin
        if (app = APN::App.where(:id => app_id).first)
          the_cert = Rails.env.production? ? app.apn_prod_cert : app.apn_dev_cert
          APN::Connection.open_for_delivery({:cert => the_cert}) do |conn, sock|
            unsent_notifications = notifications.select {|n| n.device.app_id == app_id }
            unsent_notifications.each do |noty|
              conn.write(noty.message_for_sending)
              noty.sent_at = Time.now
              noty.save
            end
          end
        end
      rescue Exception => e
        STDERR.puts e.message
        raise e
      end
    end

  end
end

Troubleshooting

NameError: uninitialized constant APN::App::RAILS_ENV

Add following line in config/environment.rb:

APN::App::RAILS_ENV = Rails.env

Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /config/apple_push_notification_development.pem

run:

script/rails generate configatron:install

It will generate configatron files. Edit config/configatron/defaults.rb add:

configatron.apn.cert = ''