Building Apps That Builds Apps

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Built a CI pipeline that ships 150 apps a month using RubyMotion plus server-driven app markup, with concrete tools: motion_screenshots for scripted simulator screenshots, pixel-compare tests that report percent diffs, apple_bot (CasperJS/PhantomJS) to automate Developer Portal and iTunes Connect, and apple_load to call Application Loader via AppleScript. GitHub webhooks trigger Travis CI builds, archives and uploads IPAs; cold end-to-end runs take ~45 minutes, cached builds ~15 minutes. Application Loader integration works but yields brittle error messages.

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1. 0:00The challenge of scale
2. 1:52Overcoming GUI limitations
3. 4:48RubyMotion development
4. 6:11Automating screenshots
5. 7:41Visual testing with specs
6. 10:26Automating Apple services
7. 14:28CI and archiving workflows
8. 15:40Automated binary uploads
9. 17:36Post-submission and results

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