nomad-cli/houston
Apple Push Notifications; No Dirigible Required observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5108
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1900
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2950 stars · 224 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Houston is a Ruby gem and CLI for sending Apple Push Notifications (APNs) using the legacy binary protocol. It provides both a simple Ruby client API and an `apn` command-line utility.
Use cases
- send apple push notifications from ruby
- send apns push notification from command line
- push notifications to ios devices
- send push notifications with badge and sound
- queue apns notifications in background jobs
When to choose
- maintaining a legacy Ruby app already using Houston
- sending notifications to very old APNs setups that still use the binary protocol
When to avoid
- starting a new project - the legacy APNs binary protocol was shut down in March 2021
- you need the modern APNs2 HTTP/2 protocol - use Apnotic instead
- you need maintained, supported software
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
http-client cli mobile-development developer-tools ruby cli apns push-notifications ios apple-push-notifications unmaintained command-line macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/nomad-cli/houston · fetched 2026-08-28 · 25c7c92f3a87
- homepage: http://nomad-cli.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · b34958f4f81c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| nomad-cli/houston | main | 10 |
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