RubyMotion Provisioning Profiles
26 Dec 2012Note: This article on provisioning profiles was first posted in the RubyMotion Google Group on May 10, 2012. It was also referenced on Stack Overflow.
Everything with RubyMotion worked great until I tried to run the sample apps on a physical device. And then I had to spend a few hours wrestling with provisioning profiles. Hopefully this post will save time for somebody else.
In order to successfully run a RubyMotion app on a non-jailbroken iPhone 3GS (via $ rake device) I had to:
- Delete all of the expired provisioning profiles in the Mac OS X Keychain Access app. Yeah, my past is littered with many random experiments :-)
- Explicitly set the path to my provisioning profile in the rakefile for the app (the defaults didn’t work for me).
- Explicitly set the name of my codesign_certificate.
The default “iOS Team Profile” didn’t work for me. I had to set explicit values in my rakefile for the app. Here’s my rakefile for the ‘Tweets’ sample app:
$:.unshift("/Library/RubyMotion/lib")
require 'motion/project'
Motion::Project::App.setup do |app| # Use `rake config' to see complete project settings.
app.name = 'Tweets'
app.provisioning_profile = '/Users/[username]/Library/ MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/[string-of-numbers].mobileprovision'
app.codesign_certificate = 'iPhone Developer: John Q Developer (A5QZ9QF4Z1)'
end
Of course, my name isn’t “John Q Developer”, but you get the idea. Hope this helps!