xcodebuilder, a gem for managing iOS builds

xcodebuilder is a fork from BetaBuilder, heavily modified to be more generic and convenient. It was written to simplify CI for iOS and OSX project, as a mere ruby wrapper on xcodebuild.

In a nutshell, it supports:

• Building iOS and OSX apps
• Uploading iOS apps to testflightapp.com.
• Git tagging builds
• Automatically incrementing the kCFBundleVersionKey key for your project
• Linting and releasing a CocoaPod library

All this is implemented in plain ruby, and distributed as a ruby gem, which makes it quite trivial to integrate that with rake, or do more complex things should you want to.

In short, xcodebuilder is the best thing since chocolate milkshake to setup your Cocoa CI tracks: it takes care of scripting xcodebuild, taking all this complexity away from you, while you still retain fine grain control over your build. You can pick your signing identity, add random extra params, upload your builds to TF (with or without DSYM). If your project is simple and you don't require any of this fanciness, your rakefile is about 15 lines short. If your project is complex and you require a bunch of fanciness, your rakefile is about 30 lines short. w00t!x

The simplest is to integrate xcodebuilder within a Rakefile. Start off by installing xcodebuilder:

$ sudo gem install xcodebuilder

Include the xcodebuilder gem by adding the following at the top of your Rakefile: require 'rubygems' require 'xcodebuilder'

Instantiate a builder object:

builder = XcodeBuilder::XcodeBuilder.new do |config|
    config.app_name = "YOUR_APP_NAME"
  end

Build your project. This will package an IPA and drop it in ./pkg:

task :build do
  builder.package
end

Release your project. This will package the IPA, drop it in ./pkg, increment the build number and git tag the tree:

task :build do
  builder.release
end

A full list of configuration options and their details

More coming!

This code is licensed under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2010 Luke Redpath Copyright (c) 2013 Olivier Larivain

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