xcode 4 + phonegap ... not update JS upon build?

Question

I've run into a weird issue that has had me scratching my head for the past hour.

I'm working on an iPad app using Xcode 4 and PhoneGap. It's using jQuery. I've put all my JS into a scripts.js file.

Things are working well.

I spend about an hour doing a lot of CSS tweaking. I'd update the CSS file, stop the app, rebuild, and push to the iPad simulator or my iPad. That's been working fine. Every update to the CSS file is reflected on the new build.

I then needed to update the JS file. I couldn't get things to work and then I finally realized none of my JS changes were actually be put into the build. I finally blanked out my JS file completely, rebuilt, and it's still not updating.

The file I'm updated is being updated in the finder in the project folder (I can right-click 'view in finder' and that file is, indeed, updated).

So I'm stumped. Is the xcode compiler caching the JS file somehow instead of grabbing the updated file? Is there a way to force it to grab the updated JS?

Answer 1

I found it necessary to hold the Option button when clicking the menu command which turns the command from "Clean" to "Clean Build Folder..." and this caused my assets to be refreshed.