Post-It

Sticky Notifications is a Mac Application developed by the brilliant Matt Gemmell. It allows you to create post-it note style reminders into Notification Center (Mountain Lion or later) or Growl.

Post-It is a simple utility that uses Sticky Notifications to post messages to Notification Center on Mac OS X. You can now easily send yourself notifications from command-line or your own scripts and applications.

Important: This utility will only function if you have Sticky Notifications.app v1.0.4+ installed.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'post-it'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install post-it

Usage

Shell or Terminal

Usage: post-it [options] message

Options:
        --version                    Show help/version info
        --prepare                    Prepare the post-it and open it 
        							 inside Sticky Notifications.app
    -t, --title TITLE                The title of the notification
                                     (default: Post It)
    -s, --subtitle SUBTITLE          The subtitle of the notification

Arguments:

    message
        The notification message that will be displayed in Notification Center.

Post a simple message:

$ post-it "My Message"

Post with custom titles:

$ post-it -t "My Title" -s "My Subtitle" "My Message"

Prepare a message in SN:

$ post-it --prepare -t "My Title" -s "My Subtitle" "My Message"

Ruby Class

The post-it terminal command simply uses the PostIt::Notification class in order to send messages to Sticky Notifications. You can do the same thing form your ruby scripts.

Quick and dirty notifications:

post_it = PostIt::Notification.new()
post_it.send("My Message")

You can define default values for both the title and the subtitle when you create the post-it object. These options are passed as a hash.

post_it = PostIt::Notification.new({:title => "My Title", :subtitle => "My Subtitle"})

You can override the default titles when you are sending the notification:

post_it.send(message,{:title => "My Title",:subtitle => "Post-It"})

You can prepare a notification to be posted by having it open inside a SN window:

post_it.prepare(message,{:title => "Optional"})

Its probably a good idea to check for errors when you are using Post-It. Exceptions will be raised in two scenarios:

1. If the Sticky Notifications.app is not found in the /Applications folder.
2. If an error occurs while sending the notifications via the SN URL scheme.

Example:

begin
  post_it = PostIt::Notification.new()
  post_it.send(message)
rescue Exception => e 
  # There was an error
  puts e.message
end

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request