Comments on: APN on Rails 0.3.0 Released

By: Art

Art — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:51:00 +0000

I would also like to put in custom properties so that I can tell the App which page to open. Rebecca / Mark: any leads on this?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:06:08 +0000

Hi Mark, I’m following your suggestion and forking the project on GITHub. Would you be willing to share the patch you received earlier? You can send it to me by email (I assume you have access to commenter email addresses…). Once I get it working and add tests I’ll send a pull request. Depending on how this goes, I and my organization may be able to take on maintaining the library.
Thanks!

By: Mark Bates

Mark Bates — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:28:29 +0000

Hi Rebecca, yeah, that’s something I missed in the first pass. Someone submitted a patch for it a while back, but I don’t take patches without tests. The best, and easiest way to add it, is to fork the gem on GitHub, make the changes and build the gem. If you add tests and send me a pull request, I’d be more than happy to pull them back into the main project.

On a side note, I’m actively looking for a maintainer of the library, as I no longer have the time to maintain it, and I don’t write iPhone apps anymore.

Hope that helps.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:17:52 +0000

Hi Mark,
Thanks for apn_on_rails. It’s been a big help. I’d like to include a custom property in some of my notification payloads and I can’t see a way to do that in apn_on_rails without modifying the gem code. Is this my best option?
Thanks.

By: Russell Quinn

Russell Quinn — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:33:10 +0000

Hello again,

I took a look at the code from Git Hub and maybe the issue was that the Apple feedback service was down, or there was a problem with it in some way? Could you see a possibility that erroneous data could cause the process to spiral out of control?

Feel free to contact me by e-mail as there’s no comment notification for this blog.

Thanks,

Russell.

By: Russell Quinn

Russell Quinn — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:00:20 +0000

Hey Mark!

So, the app is released now, but I’m having major problems with the apn:feedback:process rake task. It’s iterating over around 2,500 devices that we have registered for notifications, but consumes huge amounts of memory and ends up crashing Apache :-/

Russell.

By: Russell Quinn

Russell Quinn — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:33:12 +0000

So, I’m now actually using two queues to deal with my subscription publishing queue and the throttling is actually done in the first one, so I haven’t made any changes to APN on Rails. Sorry

I’ll be sure to add a credit to you in the app. Thanks again Mark.

By: Russell Quinn

Russell Quinn — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:42:47 +0000

Ok, I’ll look into this tomorrow (UTC+2). Thanks Mark.

Russell.

By: Mark Bates

Mark Bates — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:26:42 +0000

That sounds like a reasonable request. My I suggest forking it, and adding it?

http://github.com/markbates/apn_on_rails/tree/master

I would set a configatron setting for it, but have it overridable with an ENV param into the Rake task.

If you do it, I’d quite happily merge it back in.

By: Russell Quinn

Russell Quinn — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:23:37 +0000

So, I have one suggestion!

It would be great to fix a limit on the number of notifications that the rake task processes per call. In my case, the notifications are to alert users that a new download is available. I want to spread these out over a certain time period to avoid server load spikes.

Russell