Constructing an array of stuff (to send multiple apple push notifications)

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I'm using this gem https://github.com/justintv/APNS to send push notifications to an iPhone app and amazingly it works for single notifications, such that I can do...

APNS.send_notification(Device.first.device_token,'test message')

Works great...

Now it should be a simple task (as per the docs to send multiple notifications)

Gem says like this...

device_token = '123abc456def' n1 = [device_token, :aps => { :alert => 'Hello...', :badge => 1, :sound => 'default' } n2 = [device_token, :aps => { :alert => '... iPhone!', :badge => 1, :sound => 'default' }] APNS.send_notifications([n1, n2])

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Any ideas?

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I'm using this gem https://github.com/justintv/APNS to send push notifications to an iPhone app and amazingly it works for single notifications, such that I can do...

APNS.send_notification(Device.first.device_token,'test message')

Works great...

Now it should be a simple task (as per the docs to send multiple notifications)

Gem says like this...

device_token = '123abc456def' n1 = [device_token, :aps => { :alert => 'Hello...', :badge => 1, :sound => 'default' } n2 = [device_token, :aps => { :alert => '... iPhone!', :badge => 1, :sound => 'default' }] APNS.send_notifications([n1, n2])

Have you tried that? It doesn't look like valid ruby to me (even with the missing ] on the end of n1)

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for me it's slightly different, I wish to loop through each device in my db and then send the same message to them all...it's something like this but it's clearly not quite right... can't get the :aps => thing to work out.

I think I need something like this on my Device model, but it's not right - please help correct it, would greatly appreciate.

def self.push_message_to_all(message) devices = self.all notifications = devices.each do |device| notifications << [device.device_token,message] end

Once you have got the manual example above working the use ruby-debug to break in here and have a look at notifications and see if it is of the same form as if you break into the manual test and look at it there.

Colin

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Thanks Colin, I'll give that a spin.

The example code in the gem does seem odd.