Spit out text from a .xib or .storyboard file as it appears in xcode. Useful for diffing and working with translations.

xibstrings.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'trollop'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'tmpdir'

opts = Trollop::options do
    banner <<-EOS
Spit out text from a .xib or .storyboard file as it appears in xcode. Useful
for diffing and working with translations.

Usage:

  ruby xibstrings.rb path/to/file.storyboard

Dependencies:
  * Ruby
  * Rubygems
  * Trollop
  * Nokogiri

where [options] are:
EOS
  opt :debug, "Print debug statements", :type => :boolean, :short => "-d"
end

OPTS = opts

def run(cmd)
  puts "* Running #{cmd}" if OPTS[:debug]
  system cmd
end

basename = "storyboardstrings-#{Time.now.to_i}"
binary_plist_path = File.join(Dir::tmpdir, "#{basename}.strings")
xml_plist_path = File.join(Dir::tmpdir, "#{basename}.xml")
xib_path = ARGV[0]
run "ibtool #{xib_path} --generate-strings #{binary_plist_path}"
run "plutil -convert xml1 -o - #{binary_plist_path} > #{xml_plist_path}"
doc = Nokogiri::XML(File.open(xml_plist_path))
if OPTS[:debug]
  puts "* Generated plist"
end
doc.search('//key').each do |key|
  puts "\"#{key.text}\" = \"#{key.next_element.text}\";"
end