# \[ANN\] ruby-growl 1.0.1

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**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [15 November 2005 22:55 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-ruby-growl-1-0-1/22507 "2005-11-15T22:55:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eric\_Hodel1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9adbd/32.png) [@Eric\_Hodel1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Eric_Hodel1)\
**Post date:** [15 November 2005 22:55 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-ruby-growl-1-0-1/22507/1 "2005-11-15T22:55:11Z")

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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 Berger 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)

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