"Notify" provides notification functionalities on cross platforms.

Notify supports the following features:

• growl
• notify-send
• Growl for Windows (ruby_gntp)
• libnotify
• Mountain Lion Notification Center (terminal-notifier)

gem install notify

require 'notify'
Notify.notify "title", "message"

or

ENV['NOTIFY'] = 'growlnotify'
require 'notify'
Notify.notify "title", "message"

Notify also allows passing in an app name to replace the default "ruby":

require 'notify'
Notify.notify "title", "message", { app_name: "My App" }

% notify title messages

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