[Rubycocoa-talk] Subdirectories in app/Contents/Resources

[Brian M. <ma...@ex...>]

Summary: Xcode seems to strongly prefer that all your Ruby files be at  
the top level of the resources directory. Can my preference for a  
source directory structure override its?

Suppose I think of my app in this structure:
root/
     TranslatorEnlister.rb
     translators/
         ToString.rb
     controllers/
     util/

I can mimic that structure in Xcode groups, but as far as I can tell,  
the structure is always flattened to look like this:

Contents/Resources/
     TranslatorEnlister.rb
     ToString.rb

This is a problem if I'm doing unit testing outside the build  
directory, in which case (say) TranslatorEnlister.rb would have a  
"require 'translators/ToString'".

I can create the directories on disk, add them, and tell Xcode to  
create folder references instead of groups. However, Xcode's  
dependency checking seems to stop at the top-level folder. So if I  
change a file within .../translators/, Xcode doesn't copy it into the  
build unless I touch .../translators/ or something.

Am I confused?

I remember the thrill, back around 1980, of first working on an  
operating system that allowed a directory hierarchy. I could have two  
files with *the same name*. I would like to recapture that thrill with  
Xcode.

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