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PEM - Maintain your push certificates

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Tired of manually creating and maintaining your push notification profiles for your iOS apps? Tired of generating a pem file for your server?

PEM does all that for, just by running pem.

To automate iOS Provisioning profiles you can use sigh.

Felix Krause (@KrauseFx) the developer of PEM
Sebastian Mayr (@sebmasterkde) who implemented the download mechanism of signing certificates
Alexander Schuch (@schuchalexander) who automated the generation of the signing request

Features • Installation • Usage • How does it work? • Tips • Need help?

PEM is part of fastlane: connect all deployment tools into one streamlined workflow.

Features

Well, it's actually just one: Generate the pem file for your server.

Check out this gif:

assets/PEMRecording.gif

Installation

sudo gem install pem

Make sure, you have the latest version of the Xcode command line tools installed:

xcode-select --install

Usage

pem

Yes, that's the whole command!

This does the following:

  • Create a new signing request
  • Create a new push certification
  • Downloads the certificate
  • Generates a new .pem file in the current working directory, which you can upload to your server

PEM will never revoke your existing certificates.

You can pass parameters like this:

pem -a com.krausefx.app -u username

If you want to generate a development certificate instead:

pem --development

To get a list of available options run:

pem --help
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Environment Variables

In case you prefer environment variables:

  • PEM_USERNAME
  • PEM_APP_IDENTIFIER
  • PEM_TEAM_ID
  • PEM_SAVE_PRIVATEKEY - Set to "1" to save the private RSA key

How does it work?

There are 2 actions involved:

  • Accessing the iOS Dev Center to download the latest aps_production.cer. See: developer_center.rb.
  • Generating all the necessary profiles and files to prepare the finished .pem file. See: cert_manager.rb.
  • The .certSigningRequest file will be generated in signing_request.rb

How is my password stored?

PEM uses the password manager from fastlane. Take a look the CredentialsManager README for more information.

Tips

fastlane Toolchain

  • fastlane: Connect all deployment tools into one streamlined workflow
  • deliver: Upload screenshots, metadata and your app to the App Store using a single command
  • snapshot: Automate taking localized screenshots of your iOS app on every device
  • frameit: Quickly put your screenshots into the right device frames
  • sigh: Because you would rather spend your time building stuff than fighting provisioning
  • produce: Create new iOS apps on iTunes Connect and Dev Portal using the command line
  • cert: Automatically create and maintain iOS code signing certificates
  • codes: Create promo codes for iOS Apps using the command line
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Use the 'Provisioning Quicklook plugin'

Download and install the Provisioning Plugin.

It will show you the pem files like this: assets/QuickLookScreenshot.png

Need help?

  • If there is a technical problem with PEM, submit an issue.
  • I'm available for contract work - drop me an email: [email protected]

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE file.

Contributing

  1. Create an issue to discuss about your idea
  2. Fork it (https://github.com/KrauseFx/pem/fork)
  3. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  6. Create a new Pull Request