Grocer - New Gem for Sending Apple Push Notifications in Ruby

Awesome! This is great.<p>I'm also working on an APNS gem called Lead Zeppelin, which is similar in design, but adds a few things like a pool of connections (read: concurrent on threaded systems like JRuby and Rubinius): <a href="https://github.com/geoloqi/lead_zeppelin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/geoloqi/lead_zeppelin</a><p>There is some high quality code here, this is a great start. I think the error handling needs to be drilled down a bit, and there needs to be more logging. I'm definitely going to borrow some components of this.. the apns test server is really awesome! I'm happy that APNS support is improving in the Ruby community.

Hey, you do know that Apple requires developers to maintain persistent connections to their servers, right?<p>Checkout <a href="https://github.com/jnak/apnmachine" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jnak/apnmachine</a> Feature list: - persistent connection to APN Servers (as Apple recommends) - real-time notifications (no regular polling a la Resque) - super easy to use in Ruby and any languages (as easy as enqueuing a serialized JSON hash in Redis) - persist and queue messages when server is down - horizontal scalability and out-of-the-box load-balancing - fast daemons

Or, if you use Urban Airship; it's literally like five lines of code with HTTParty to send a push notification.<p>Of course, your needs may vary, but UA scales well and is essentially free to start with.