By A few months ago, I wrote about automatically generating classes for your Core Data entities and how to automate Xcode using users scripts, such that, when your model changed, you only needed to run your custom script again and your intermediate model files would reflect the new situation.
Well, the guys from the mogenerator project have come up with
a far superior solution in the mean time. The newest version of mogenerator
comes with an Xcode plugin named Xmo’d, which monitors your *.xcdatamodel
file for changes and, as soon as it changes, regenerates all of the neccessary
files.
This means that there is officially no more reason not to use mogenerator.
To set it up, download the installer package from their (improved) project
website and install it. (Before
installing, please read the important release note about the renamed method
+newInManagedObjectContext:.)
When installed, all you need to do is Command-click your *.xcdatamodel file,
click Get Info, switch to the Comments tab and add the string “xmod” to the
comment field. This is the trigger for Xmo’d to start (re)generating your
machine-classes (the underscored class files) when the data model changes.
Brilliant!
Oh, the default location at which the generated files will be emitted, is in
a folder named after your project, right next to where your *.xcdatamodel
already sits:
Enjoy it and spread the word!