index.plist.rxml

#example with a formatted date and a boolean
xml.instruct!
xml.declare! :DOCTYPE, :plist, :PUBLIC, "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN", "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"

xml.plist("version" => 1.0) do |plist|
  plist.dict do |wrapper|
    @occasions.each do |occasion|
      wrapper.key occasion.id
      wrapper.dict do |dict|
        dict.key 'ccd_remote_id' # required id from the system of record (rails db in this case)
        dict.integer occasion.id
        dict.key 'updated'       # required updated timestamp for syncing (based on server time, not client)
        dict.integer occasion.updated_at.to_i
        dict.key 'date'          # example of a valid date format string
        dict.date occasion.starts_at.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')
        dict.key 'deleted'       # example of passing a boolean value (which might also be nil)
        occasion.deleted? ? dict.true : dict.false 
        dict.key 'title'
        dict.string occasion.title
        dict.key 'location'
        dict.string occasion.location
        dict.key 'type'         # example of passing rails style STI behavior to Core Data
        dict.string occasion.type.to_s
        dict.key 'categories'   # simple related data example where we flatten them to a readable string
        dict.string occasion.categories.collect{|e| e.title}.to_sentence
        dict.key 'body'
        dict.string occasion.body
        dict.key 'occasionId'
        dict.integer occasion.id
        dict.key 'duration'
        dict.integer occasion.duration
      end
    end
  end
end