PushIt

Overview

A super light-weight Apple push notification service.

Feature

• No database
• No configurations
• No UI

Deploying Heroku

$ heorku create
$ cp apple_push_notification.pem .
$ git add .
$ git commit -am "Add .pem"
$ git push heroku master

If you use production .pem:

$ heroku config:add APN_ENVIRONMENT=production

How to pass .pem via environment variables

Local

$ export APN_CERTIFICATE_BASE64=`bundle exec rake APN_CERTIFICATE=/path/to/aps_developer_identity.pem`
$ PORT=4567 bundle exec foreman start

Heroku

$ heorku create
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku config:add APN_CERTIFICATE_BASE64=`bundle exec rake APN_CERTIFICATE=/path/to/aps_developer_identity.pem`
$ heroku config:add APN_CERTIFICATE=tmp/apple_push_notification.pem

How to Push

$ curl -XPOST https://yourapp.herokuapp.com/message \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "tokens":["xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx"],
    "payload": {
      "aps" : {
        "alert" : "Yo",
        "badge" : 0,
        "sound" : "default",
      },
      "my_data" : "my_string"
    }
  }'

Acknowledge

This code is extracted from Helios by Mattt Thompson.