Laravel Elixir Gulp Notifications

There is a post about this here: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/laravel-elixer-gulp-watch-error-in-homestead

In it, @noeldiaz mentions using Growl for Windows. I haven't tried it myself but here's the link anyway: http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/

Okay, I don't use homestead, but I did see that Growl thing. The issue is, is that I don't want to use Growl, as Windows has notifications itself. It has to be possible, maybe @JefferyWay can look at this post since he is the founder of Elixir.

I don't know. I'll check with the gulp-notify package repo, to see if there's known issue with Windows messages.

Thanks @JefferyWay! Did you find out if there are any know issues? Thanks again!

Editing 'node_modules/laravel-elixir/ingredients/helpers/GulpCssCompiler.js' and adding a message to the "plugins.notify" method fixes the problem.

You can copy/paste the subtitle values to get the same result.

For Windows: In latest L5 (for the date of the post) you can change this file: node_modules/laravel-elixir/ingredients/commands/Notification.js

to:

var notify = require('gulp-notify');

module.exports = function() {

    this.title = 'Laravel Elixir';

    this.message = function(message) {
        return notify({
            title: this.title,
            subtitle: '',
            icon: __dirname + '/../../icons/laravel.png',
            message: message
        });
    };

    this.error = function(e, subtitle) {
        return notify.onError({
            title: this.title + ': ' + subtitle,
            subtitle: '',
            icon: __dirname + '/../../icons/fail.png',
            message:  'Error: <%= error.message %>'
        })(e);
    };

    this.forPassedTests = function(framework) {
        return notify({
            title: this.title + ': Passed!',
            subtitle: '',
            icon: __dirname + '/../../icons/pass.png',
            message:  'Your ' + framework + ' tests passed!'
        });
    };

    this.forFailedTests = function(e, framework) {
        return notify.onError({
            title: this.title + ': Failed!!!',
            subtitle: '',
            icon: __dirname + '/../../icons/fail.png',
            message:  'Your ' + framework + ' tests failed!'
        })(e);
    };

};

Does anyone know how to get Elixir notifications from gulp running inside a Homestead VM to display on the host (running Win 7)? I tried the vagrant-notify plugin which would seem to be the answer but it fails on Win 7 due to a Ruby issue. Any advice / workaround / solution appreciated.