Note: Shortly after releasing this gem, we renamed it from Action Native Push to Action Push Native, in case you arrived here looking for the gem of the former name. More details here.
We’ve open-sourced Action Push Native, a Rails gem for sending push notifications to mobile platforms. It supports both Apple and Google push notification services.
Why did we build it?
We created it to migrate off Amazon SNS and Pinpoint, as part of our broader cloud exit. We’re using it in Basecamp and HEY to send more than 10 million push notifications per day without a hitch.
Action Push Native relies on HTTP/2 persistent connections to the Apple Push Notification service, which significantly reduced job duration compared to our previous HTTP/1 setup with AWS Pinpoint:
How does it work?
The gem connects directly to the Apple (APNs) and Google (FCM) push notification services. It handles retries, rate-limiting, and deleting dead devices automatically. Configure each platform with your credentials, and you can start sending notifications like this:
device = ApplicationPushDevice.create! \
name: "iPhone 16",
token: "6c267f26b173cd9595ae2f6702b1ab560371a60e7c8a9e27419bd0fa4a42e58f",
platform: "apple"
notification = ApplicationPushNotification.new \
title: "Hello world!",
body: "Welcome to Action Push Native"
notification.deliver_later_to(device)
Version 0.1.0 is available now. You can read more on GitHub.
We hope you find it useful!
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