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

[Dave B. <dav...@3d...>]

On 3 Jul 2008, at 18:25, Brian Marick wrote:

> 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'".

You can always add to the search path used to find files to require:

$:.unshift '../translators'

would do it.

Doesn't answer your main problem with xcode, though.

Dave.

>
>
> 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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