🚀 Power Up Your App with Push Notifications in Ruby on Rails! 📲

Push notifications are an excellent way to engage users by sending timely, relevant updates directly to their devices. In this blog, we’ll dive into the world of push notifications in Ruby on Rails. Whether it’s a simple notification system or complex third-party integrations, we’ve got you covered! Let’s explore the various options and learn how to set up each with examples. 💡

🛠️ Types of Push Notifications in Rails

1. In-App Notifications 📩
2. Web Push Notifications 🌐
3. Mobile Push Notifications 📱
4. Email as Push Notifications ✉️
5. Using Third-Party Services 🛠️

1. In-App Notifications 📩

In-app notifications appear within your application. Rails has several ways to implement these, including creating your own notification system or using gems like Notification or Noticed.

Setup Example with Noticed Gem

1. Add the gem:

gem 'noticed'

2. Generate a Notification Model:

rails generate noticed:model NewMessageNotification