# Ruby-growl 1.0.1

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-growl-1-0-1/48015>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 15, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-growl-1-0-1/48015 "2005-11-15T23:56:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-growl-1-0-1/48015/1 "2005-11-15T23:56:34Z")

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The 1.0.1 release of ruby-growl allows ruby-growl to work on Tiger’s  
Ruby 1.8.2.

Special thanks to Aslak Hellesoy for pointing out the problem and  
Daniel B. for informing me that Array#pack is broken on Tiger.

ruby-growl is a UDP notification tool for Growl.

What is Growl?

Growl is a global notification system for Mac OS X. Applications can  
register messages which Growl displays on the screen in a variety of  
ways depending upon your preferences.

Why ruby-growl?

Growl’s existing Ruby bindings only work on Macs, and I wanted my non-  
Mac machines to be able to send Growl notifications. I peeked inside  
Growl’s remote-notification capabilities and wrote up some code that  
uses UDP to send Growl notifications across the network.

For more information, see:

[http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/growl/](http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/growl/)

To install:

gem install ruby-growl

Or you can fetch the gem (or source .tgz) from RubyForge:

[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=1100](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1100)