Insistent I don’t want persistence.
I’ve been a little annoyed with Xcode on Lion. Every time I open a project it also opens the last project I was working on. This might be fine if I was only working on one project – but recently I have been working on Captured in the evenings, and Zippy’s iPhone app during the day. I don’t want to open the project for Captured when I get to work in the morning. Plus it is particularly frustrating when one of those projects is a workspace, if you create a new project Xcode insists on adding it to the current workspace.
The solution: fix my xcode script, by passing in a user defaults flag.
I have been using a helper function to load xcode from the command line for a while now, and really it is the primary way that I open a project. Maybe I am in minority for Cocoa developers, but I live on the command line – so this is better for me.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
f = []
f.concat Dir["*.xcworkspace"]
f.concat Dir["*.xcodeproj"]
if f.length > 0
puts "opening #{f.first}"
`open -a /Developer/Applications/Xcode.app #{f.first} --args -ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES`
exit 0
end
puts "No Xcode projects found"
exit 1
The trick is the ApplePersistenceIgnoreState option passed in to Xcode, this overrides the NSUserDefault for the app persistence.
If you want to use this, just create a file xcode somewhere in your path and then set it to be executable chmod +x xcode. Then opening project is as simple as:
cd path/to/proj
xcode
Refreshing.