Open iOS simulator app data directory

If you need to quickly open an app's document directory on the iOS Simulator, you can quickly get the path from the xcrun CLI.

xcrun simctl get_app_container booted ${bundle_id} data

Here's some ruby you can throw into a Rakefile of your iOS app 😉

# Rakefile
desc "Open the simulator document directory"
task :docs do
  bundle_id = File.read("MyAppName/MyAppName.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj")
    .scan(/PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER = "(.*)"/)
    .flatten.first

  app_directory = `xcrun simctl get_app_container booted #{bundle_id} data`

  puts "Opening simulator directory: #{app_directory}"
  `open #{app_directory}`
end

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