Rubygem to notify Rake Task is finished

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Is there any Rubygem to send an email or push notification after a certain Rake Task is finished? It's good if there is one as I usually do multi tasking and forget to check if a process of Rake task is finished.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 11 '12 at 16:54

Assuming you're on a Mac, use Growl (http://growl.info/) and the growl gem (https://rubygems.org/gems/growl). You will need to install the growlnotify extra (http://growl.info/extras.php/#growlnotify) to enable growl notifications from the command line--something the gem depends on.

At this point you can add some Ruby in your Rakefile to notify yourself. Example:

notification = Growl.new
notify_ok 'Deployment successful'

Hope that helps.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 09 '13 at 21:03

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I find that this is easier (ubuntu):

rake whatever_task; notify-send "whatever_task finished with status $?"

On OSX, you'll want to use growlnotify instead of notify-send (I think)

answered Jan 09 '13 at 21:03

hdgarrood

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