https://github.com/ckruse/CFPropertyList

Read, write and manipulate both binary and XML property lists as defined by apple
https://github.com/ckruse/CFPropertyList

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Read, write and manipulate both binary and XML property lists as defined by apple

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/ckruse/CFPropertyList
Owner: ckruse
License: mit
Created: 2010-02-28T01:48:33.000Z (about 16 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2025-11-19T06:27:16.000Z (6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-05-20T00:37:52.440Z (5 days ago)
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- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

README.md

CFPropertyList implementation
class to read, manipulate and write both XML and binary property list
files (plist(5)) as defined by Apple. Have a look at CFPropertyList::List
for more documentation.

Caution

In version 3.0.0 we dropped Ruby 1.8 compatibility. If you are using
Ruby 1.8 consider to update Ruby; if you can't upgrade, don't upgrade
CFPropertyList.

Caution

In version 4.0.0 we dropped support for Ruby<3.2. If you are using
Ruby 3.2 or below consider to update Ruby; if you can't upgrade, don't upgrade
CFPropertyList.

Installation

You could either use ruby gems and install it via

gem install CFPropertyList

or you could clone this repository and place it somewhere in your load path.

Example:

require 'cfpropertylist'

If you're using Rails, you can add it into your Gemfile

gem 'CFPropertyList'

Usage

create a arbitrary data structure of basic data types

data = {
  'name' => 'John Doe',
  'missing' => true,
  'last_seen' => Time.now,
  'friends' => ['Jane Doe','Julian Doe'],
  'likes' => {
    'me' => false
  }
}

create CFPropertyList::List object

plist = CFPropertyList::List.new

call CFPropertyList.guess() to create corresponding CFType values

plist.value = CFPropertyList.guess(data)

write plist to file

plist.save("example.plist", CFPropertyList::List::FORMAT_BINARY)

… later, read it again

plist = CFPropertyList::List.new(:file => "example.plist")
data = CFPropertyList.native_types(plist.value)

Author and license

Author: Christian Kruse (mailto:cjk@wwwtech.de)

License: MIT License

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Description: Software developer, system administrator, Linux user, computer nerd, hobby gardener.
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Dependencies

cfpropertylist.gemspec rubygems

libxml-ruby >= 0 development
minitest >= 0 development
nokogiri >= 0 development
rake >= 0.7.0 development
rexml >= 0

.github/workflows/main.yml actions

actions/checkout v2 composite
ruby/setup-ruby v1 composite

Gemfile rubygems

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