Running from CLI

You can also run RockTomate jobs from the command-line interface when you’re running Unity in batch mode.

"C:\Path\To\Unity.exe" -batchMode -projectPath "D:\Projects\HardCodeLab\RockTomate" -executeMethod "HardCodeLab.RockTomate.CLI.RunJob" "Assets/AutomatedJob.rock.job"

Arguments

Argument	Parameter(s)	Description
-batchMode	none	Makes Unity run in batch mode
-projectPath	"D:\Projects\HardCodeLab\RockTomate"	Opens a Unity project
-executeMethod	"HardCodeLab.RockTomate.CLI.RunJob" "Assets/AutomatedJob.rock.job"	Runs a Job with path of "Assets/AutomatedJob.rock.job"

You can find the full list of Unity's command line arguments here.

Do not pass -quit argument when running a Job as it would immediately closes Unity without letting the Job to finish. This is because RockTomate was designed to be a non-blocking process to let users interact with UI while the Job is running.

RockTomate will quit Unity after the Job has done running (passing 0 as the exit code if it succeeded or 1 if it failed).

Passing Variables

Aside from running jobs, you can also map variables with values from command line arguments.

For example, let’s say we have a variable named my_pet and want to pass a value Shiba Inu. We can do the following:

-executeMethod "HardCodeLab.RockTomate.CLI.RunJob" "Assets/AutomatedJob.rock.job" "my_pet"="Shiba Inu"

You can map as many variables as you’d like.

Mapping Variables

Alternatively, variables can be mapped directly in advance.

When creating a variable, set its value to be a formula %arg0%.

Then, you can run a Job without explicitly stating variable names.

-executeMethod "HardCodeLab.RockTomate.CLI.RunJob" "Assets/AutomatedJob.rock.job" "Shiba Inu"