I've solved my problem using a bash file that uses rsync to sync working directories and then AppleScript which builds and runs the project.
sync.sh:
#!/bin/bash
# script for moving development files into xcode for building
developmentDirectory="/"
xcodeDirectory="/"
echo 'Synchronising...'
rsync -r $developmentDirectory $xcodeDirectory \
--exclude='.DS_Store' --exclude='.*' --exclude='utils/' --exclude='photos'
echo 'Synchronising Done at:'
echo $(date)
buildandrun:
set projectName to "projectName"
# AppleScript uses : for / in directory paths
set projectDir to "Users:username:Documents:" & projectName & ":" & projectName & ".xcodeproj"
tell application "Xcode"
open projectDir
tell project projectName
clean
build
(* for some reasons, debug will hang even the debug process has completed.
The try block is created to suppress the AppleEvent timeout error
*)
try
debug
end try
end tell
quit
end tell
Then, finally, I'm using a shell script called run.sh aliased in my .bash_profile:
run.sh:
#!/bin/bash
bash utils/sync.sh
osascript utils/buildandrun