Storing Notifications in the Database
Before we implement the logic to store notifications in the database, let’s look at the Notifications API.
The Notifications API
The Notifications API consists of just two methods: instrument and subscribe. The former is called when we want to instrument and publish an event, and for Action Controller processing, it looks like this:
| | ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrument("process_action.action_controller", |
| | format: :html, path: "/", action: "index") do |
| | process_action("index") |
| | end |
The first argument is the name of the event published, which in this case is process_action.action_controller, and the second is a hash with information about the event, called payload. To subscribe to those ...
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