This is a simple Briefcasts server for your Briefs.
Rob Rhyne developed Briefs, an iPhone application for creating wireframes for Cocoa touch applications.
This is an insanely cool app, and much props go to Digital Arch. Check it out first, http://giveabrief.com.
Within Briefs, you can add a URL that points to a list of briefs. In the app, it's called My Briefcasts.
briefs-caster converts any .bs files into .brieflist files using the
utilities provided by the Briefs starter kit and serves them up on
http://0.0.0.0:5000 as a Briefcast.
Requires Mac OS X
briefs-caster uses Python. To install it open a terminal and type the following
easy_install briefs-caster
If you use Pip (recommended), alternatively run this
pip install briefs-caster
Note you may need to sudo these commands on your system.
We're going to assume that you've installed Briefs and have started using it.
You should be to the point that you have a .bs file that you've
created.
Let's pretend it's in a directory called ~/my_briefs.
Run the briefs-caster from the directory
cd ~/my_briefs briefs-caster
Alternatively you can tell briefs-caster where to serve from
briefs-caster ~/my_briefs
You should see the following output
briefs-caster - Serving up some fine briefs for you Open http://<IP_ADDRESS>:5000 from the Briefs app CTRL-C to exit the server * Running on http://0.0.0.0:5000/
Check the terminal for any errors that the Briefs script utililty produces. If you mis-type something, forget a required attribute or something like that it will show up in the output.
In the Briefs app do the following:
- Touch My Briefcasts
- Touch Edit in the top right
- Touch +
- Enter Name Briefs-caster example
- Enter URL http://127.0.0.1:5000 or if you are not using the same computer this IP may be different (we run the iPhone Simulator with Briefs inside it)
- Touch Save
- Touch Done
Now you are ready to try it out:
- Touch Briefs-caster example
If everything went as expected, you should see your list of Briefs.