= plist4r

Plist4r is a friendly rubygem / ruby lib for handling plist files.

• Documentation at http://dreamcat4.github.com/plist4r

== Installation

gem install plist4r

== Quick Start

require ‘plist4r’

Plist4r::Config.default_path = “/Library/LaunchDaemons” filename = “com.github.myservice.plist” p = Plist4r.open(filename)

p.plist_type

=> :launchd

p.file_format

=> :xml

p.edit do program_arguments [“/usr/local/bin/myservice”] watch_paths [“/var/db/myservice”] end

p.save

== Overview

• For convenience we invoke {Plist4r.open} and {Plist4r.new} to initially create a plist object.

• And use {Plist4r::Config} to set any global configuration defaults.

• See {file:Backends} for the backends performance data.

Examples

• See {file:InfoPlistExample}
• See {file:LaunchdPlistExample}

Recommended reading

• See {file:EditingPlistFiles}
• See {file:PlistKeyNames}
• Please see the inline source-code documentation on {Plist4r::Plist}

How to contribute

• {file:DeveloperGuide}

== Copyright

Plist4r is Copyright (c) 2009 under MIT License. See {file:LICENSE} for details.