The ios-sim tool is a command-line utility that launches an iOS application on the iOS Simulator. This allows for niceties such as automated testing without having to open XCode.

• Choose the device family to simulate, i.e. iPhone or iPad.
• Setup environment variables.
• Pass arguments to the application.
• See the stdout and stderr, or redirect them to files.

See the --help option for more info.

Through homebrew:

$ brew install ios-sim

Download an archive:

$ curl -L https://github.com/phonegap/ios-sim/zipball/1.8 -o ios-sim-1.8.zip
$ unzip ios-sim-1.8.zip

Or from a git clone:

$ git clone git://github.com/phonegap/ios-sim.git

Then build and install from the source root:

$ rake install prefix=/usr/local/

To get ios-sim to launch correctly within tmux use the reattach-to-user-namespace wrapper.

reattach-to-user-namespace ios-sim launch ./build/MyTestApp.app

source: https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard

brew: brew install reattach-to-user-namespace

Original author: Landon Fuller [email protected] Copyright (c) 2008-2011 Plausible Labs Cooperative, Inc. All rights reserved.

This project is available under the MIT license. See LICENSE.