I am working on a project in Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3 and I am looking for a gem to send push notifications to my iOS app and to my Android app.
I found speedy_c2dm for android worth useful.
But,I am concerned about as mentioned in Migration to GCM:
Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) is deprecated. C2DM
developers are strongly encouraged to move to Google Cloud Messaging
(GCM)
Does speedy_c2dm support GCM ? Is there any other gem that supports new GCM ?
Also, I want to know what is difference between speedy_c2dm and c2dm ?
Both speedy_c2dm and c2dm are just two libraries to send push notifications by using C2DM, they are written by different persons, they both work and there are not major differences, in theory speedy_c2dm should be faster, but there are not benchmarks at the moment.
Instead of implementing C2DM, you should implement GCM 🙂
There are many gcm gems, the most popular is gcm but last commit was 5 months ago:
gcm
gcm_on_rails
pushgcm
simple_gcm
simple-gcm
higcm
speedygcm