What is the best way to configure my RubyMotion App for Development, Testing, and Production Environments

Question

I'm using RubyMotion to build an iOS app.

I am using Facebook and Parse.

I have set up three different Facebook and Parse applications.

How should I set up RubyMotion to use the correct credentials for each app for each environment? Is using yml files correct? If so where should I put them and how should I load them.

Are there things like development.rb in rails?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '13 at 02:09

It's possible to differentiate between at least two versions, I know.

In your Rakefile you can use app.X to specify different things:

  # Distribution - use rake archive:release
  app.release do
    # Release (production) items here
  end

  # Development - use rake archive
  app.development do
    # Dev stuff here
  end

Elsewhere, to differentiate I use this:

def development?
  RUBYMOTION_ENV == "development"
end

def release?
  !development?
end

def parse_app_id
  return "PARSE_DEVELOPMENT_APP_ID" if development?
  return "PARSE_RELEASE_APP_ID" if release?
end

def parse_client_key
  return "PARSE_DEVELOPMENT_CLIENT_KEY" if development?
  return "PARSE_RELEASE_CLIENT_KEY" if release?
end

I also keep a Testflight branch in my git repo that has Testflight packages and info (that I never merge back into master or dev) but that's beyond the scope of my answer here.

Thanks, do you know if the specs run in the development environment or if they have a separate environment? — Daniel X Moore, Feb 07 '13 at 19:05
I believe those run in development. You may want to tweet @RubyMotion to find out for sure. — Jamon Holmgren, Feb 08 '13 at 03:21

What is the best way to configure my RubyMotion App for Development, Testing, and Production Environments

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