Push Notification with Ruby On Rails - Setting up the project

In my previous video, I gave an high level view of how push notification works. In this video tutorial, I will be explaining how you get started with ruby on rails, setting up project and install necessary gem.

Demo for you to try out

• Demo (P.S. You need to accept notification and press the "Click to Sub" Button)
• Send Push Message (Just fill in what you want to send)

Ruby Gem used

• serviceworker-rails (Use to setup service worker in Ruby On Rails Project)
• webpush (Setup Vapid and send Web Push protocol with this gem)
• json (JSON parsing in Ruby using this gem)

To get VAPID key

Install ruby gem webpush
gem install webpush

Then, in ruby console (irb)

require("webpush")
vapid_key = Webpush.generate_key
puts vapid_key.public_key
puts vapid_key.private_key

You should never show your private key. I change my private key after this video.

A good practise is to store both key in .env file.

Reference from my own blog

Next Video

In the next video, I will explain setting up service worker with Ruby On Rails, setting up Push Event.

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