adding a new alert to the rails app

test_alert.rb

class TestAlert < AlertComposer

  set_alert :name => 'Test alert',
    :description  => 'budget reached and get alerts',
    :level        => 'error',         # or 'warning', 'danger' or default => 'info'
    :flash        => true             # default false, to ensure system notification is flashed to get attention 

  def notify receiver, related_id, extra={}
    "this is test system alert :) or return nil to avoid"
  end

  def sms receiver, related_id, extra={}
    "this is test sms alert :) or return nil to avoid"
  end

  def email receiver, related_id, extra={}
    UserMailer.test_mail(receiver, 'some dynamic data').deliver
  end
end

# example to send alert to a user which gets added to delayed_job
alert @user, :test