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Crafting Rails 4 Applications, 2nd Edition
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Crafting Rails 4 Applications, 2nd Edition

by Jose Valim
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
200 pages
4h 31m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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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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