https://github.com/oleander/einstein-rb

Push notification service for restaurant Einstein
https://github.com/oleander/einstein-rb

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Push notification service for restaurant Einstein

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/oleander/einstein-rb
• Owner: oleander
• Created: 2011-05-10T21:44:51.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-05-02T02:47:27.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-18T11:28:12.009Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://www.butlercatering.se/Lunchmeny
• Size: 723 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Einstein

Push notification service for restaurant [Einstein](http://www.butlercatering.se/einstein.html).

Follow me on [Twitter](http://twitter.com/linusoleander) or [Github](https://github.com/oleander/) for more info and updates.

## How to use

### Today's menu

```` ruby

Einstein::Menu.new(:today).dishes

````

### Menu for any day

```` ruby

Einstein::Menu.new(:monday).dishes

````

### Push to phone

*Einstein* has build in support for [Prowl](https://www.prowlapp.com/).  

Just pass you [api key](https://www.prowlapp.com/api_settings.php) to `#push_to` and the menu will be push to you phone within seconds.

```` ruby

Einstein::Menu.new(:monday).push_to("6576aa9fa3fc3e18aca8da9914a166b3")

````

## What's being returned?

`#dishes` returns an array of strings containing each dish for the given day.

## What is being push to the phone?

![Example push](http://i.imgur.com/lf8Js.png)

## Real world example

Here is a real world example using [whenever](https://github.com/javan/whenever).  

It will push *today's menu* directly to your iPhone each day at 11:45 AM.

1 . Install whenever. `gem install whenever`.  

2 . Navigate to your application, run `wheneverize .`.  

3 . Add these lines to your `config/schedule.rb` file.  

```` ruby

require "einstein"

every 1.day, at: "11:45 am" do 

  runner 'Einstein::Menu.new(:today).push_to("6576aa9fa3fc3e18aca8da9914a166b3")'

end

````

4 . Create the cron task using `whenever`.  

5 . Done!  

## How to install

    [sudo] gem install einstein

## Requirements

- [Tesseract](http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/)

- [ImageMagick](http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php)

- Ruby 1.9.2

## License

*Einstein* is released under the *MIT license*.