ios-sim

The ios-sim tool is a command-line utility that launches an iOS application on the iOS Simulator. This allows for niceties such as automated testing without having to open XCode.

Features

Choose the device family to simulate, i.e. iPhone or iPad.
Setup environment variables.
Pass arguments to the application.
See the stdout and stderr, or redirect them to files.

See the --help option for more info.

Installation

With node.js (at least 0.10.20):

$ sudo npm install ios-sim -g

Download an archive:

$ curl -L https://github.com/phonegap/ios-sim/zipball/1.8.2 -o ios-sim-1.8.2.zip
$ unzip ios-sim-1.8.2.zip

Or from a git clone:

$ git clone git://github.com/phonegap/ios-sim.git

Then build and install from the source root:

$ rake install prefix=/usr/local/

Development

When you want to release a version, do:

$ rake version:bump v=NEW_VERSION
$ rake release
$ npm version NEW_VERSION -m "Updated to npm version %s"

tmux

To get ios-sim to launch correctly within tmux use the reattach-to-user-namespace wrapper.

reattach-to-user-namespace ios-sim launch ./build/MyTestApp.app

source: https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard

brew: brew install reattach-to-user-namespace

License