Campfire messages in Growl

Robby Russell — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:24:00 -0600

Our team has slowly been transitioning from IRC to Campfire (iPhone interface helped with this decision) for internal team discussions. Earlier today, I decided to setup Campfire to connect to Growl. There are a few scripts to do this, but I figured that I’d consolidate the steps here for my teammates and share with everyone else in the process.

Step 1: Get stuff installed

You’ll need to install the following programs on OSX.

Growl (install and run it)
Fluid.app (run a web site in it’s own desktop app)
- Follow instructions on their homepage (requires restart of Safari)

Step 2: Setup Campfire

Once you have everything installed, you can go ahead and create your Campfire Fluid application. You’ll need to provide your Campfire URL and a name for the application.

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Once you get it running, you should be able to run your Campfire application in it’s own window.

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Step 3: Install the Campfire Growl script for GreaseKit

Next, you’ll want to install this script, created by Tim Harper, on userscripts.org within your Campfire Fluid.app instance.

Under the Userscripts menu, you’ll see: Browse Userscripts.org.

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Find your way to the script (search for: “Campfire Growl”) to find and install the script.

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Once it installs, you’ll then need to activate it in the Fluid applications management interface. Within Campfire application, go to Userscripts > Manage Userscripts.

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Then activate it like so:

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..and that’s it! When you’re not focused on Campfire… you should see Growl notifications when other people are talking in the active room.

Robby on Rails: Campfire messages in Growl

Campfire messages in Growl

Step 1: Get stuff installed

Step 2: Setup Campfire

Step 3: Install the Campfire Growl script for GreaseKit