24 May 2019   workflow


If you need to quickly open an app’s document directory on the iOS Simulator, you can quickly get the path from the xcrun CLI.

xcrun simctl get_app_container booted ${bundle_id} data

Here’s some ruby you can throw into a Rakefile of your iOS app 😉

# Rakefile
desc "Open the simulator document directory"
task :docs do
  bundle_id = File.read("MyAppName/MyAppName.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj")
    .scan(/PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER = "(.*)"/)
    .flatten.first

  app_directory = `xcrun simctl get_app_container booted #{bundle_id} data`

  puts "Opening simulator directory: #{app_directory}"
  `open #{app_directory}`
end
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