[MacRuby-devel] An easy way to add .rb files to Xcode build automatically?

[Michael Jackson]

I've tried both. With the yellow icon (a "group") I need to manually
add .rb files to the project when I create them in Vim. However, the
upside is that the files are copied to the correct place in the build
(the project root), so they are correctly found by rb_main.rb at
runtime.

With the blue icon (the "folder reference") the files are
automatically added to the project when I create them in Vim, but the
entire folder is actually copied to the build which means that
rb_main.rb doesn't find them when it tries to include everything.

Ideally, what I'd like to do is use a folder reference and then just
set up some build script that will copy everything to the project root
when I build.

--
Michael Jackson
http://mjijackson.com
@mjijackson



On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Nick Ludlam <nick at recoil.org> wrote:
> On 27 Jul 2010, at 18:25, Michael Jackson wrote:
>
>> I tried adding a folder to the root of my project called "Classes" in
>> which I put all of my Ruby code. I then added that folder reference to
>> the project. However, when I build the project the files are copied to
>> a "Classes" folder in the build instead of to the project root where
>> they can be found by main.rb.
>
>
> Hi Michael,
> In the XCode project tree, does your 'Classes' folder have a blue or yellow icon? There are two types of folders that you can add to the source tree. Blue folders (folder references) are 'physical' in the sense that the structure will be preserved when copied to the Resources folder of your application's bundle.
>
> Yellow folders (groups) are more like logical folders for partitioning your project files within XCode. They don't strictly enforce or correspond to any structure on disk unless you specifically set it up that way, and anything under these folders will become flattened into the final Resources destination folder.
>
> Within my current MacRuby project, I only use the blue folder references for any packaged gems that I want to include. All normal ruby project files are in yellow group folders.
>
> There's a good post about it at http://iphonedevelopertips.com/xcode/xcode-folders-and-the-file-system-part-1.html
>
> Nick
>
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