Mountable Rails engine for capturing iOS UDID, check if IPA is installable, and installing if so.

Created for a Rails 3.2 app, might work in Rails 4, but I haven't tried. Let me know if it works!

By default, the engine assumes the following directory structure in your rails project:

rails_application/
  app/
  config/
  ...
  mobile_build/              <------------- config.template_dir
    manifest.plist
    Profile.mobileconfig

The app.ipa file is the actual compiled binary archive from Xcode. The engine will look at the embedded.mobileprovision to check if the client is installable.

The plist and mobileconfig files are part of the UDID capture and install processes, they are templates that will be modified before being sent to the client. See the templates directory for what these files need to look like. Customize them to your liking and make sure they exist where expected.

The engine will not work without these.

Optionally, you can override these defaults by setting up an initializer in your rails app, e.g. config/initializers/apple_manifest_rails.rb

AppleManifestRails.configure do |config|
  config.page_title = "Who needs testflight? I've got apple_manifest_rails!"
  config.template_dir = Rails.root.join('apple_manifest_rails', 'templates')

  # The DB Table that contains the model for the iPhone apps.
  config.model = IphoneApp
end

Step 1: Add to your rails gemfile

gem 'apple_manifest_rails'

Step 2: bundle install

Step 3: Mount the engine in config/routes.rb

Example::Application.routes.draw do
  mount AppleManifestRails::Engine => '/'
end

Step 5: Create the model. TODO, need to supply a generator

class IphoneApp < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_attached_file :file  # Paperclip

  def file_path     # Required method by apple_manifest_rails
    file.path
  end
end

Migration:

class CreateIphoneApps < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :iphone_apps do |t|
      t.string :version
      t.string :uuid
      t.attachment :file
      t.string :name

      t.timestamps null: false
    end
  end
end

Step 5: Start your rails server and navigate iOS Safari to /enroll/:uuid or /install/:uuid (aliased)

Yeah! Fork it, make it better! I know there are others out there that dislike relying on Testflight and Hockeyapp too -- that functionality can just be a mountable engine!

MIT or WTFPL