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Mike
Mike

Reputation: 91

Rails, Notifications, New Events

I'm a Rails newbie, and interested in creating a notification model for Users. I don't want to use email for the notification, but instead have a facebook-style flag at the top of the profile page, that keeps a count of new comments or other events. I've searched around, and there doesn't seem to be any tutorial directly on point.

My biggest question is how to determine which comments/events are "new" since the User last viewed his dashboard/profile page. Right now, my only idea is to create a separate table with User_id, and Time_Checked. When the User views his show page, I would enter the current time into the database. I've looked at the Railscast on Faye, and read about Pusher, but those seem more advanced and related to Ajax-style notifications. Right now, I'm looking for something basic just to get some hands-on experience.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 412

Answers (1)

ramaman
ramaman

Reputation: 125

What I did was by simply using a 'read' boolean instead of 'time-checked (just like how email works). The notification is automatically 'read' every time the dashboard controller action is called.

Upvotes: 0

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