diff --git a/lib/cocoapods/generator/copy_resources_script.rb b/lib/cocoapods/generator/copy_resources_script.rb
index 384a227626..cb66a14ddb 100644
--- a/lib/cocoapods/generator/copy_resources_script.rb
+++ b/lib/cocoapods/generator/copy_resources_script.rb
@@ -6,8 +6,16 @@ class CopyResourcesScript
 
 install_resource()
 {
-  echo "cp -R ${SRCROOT}/Pods/$1 ${CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR}/${UNLOCALIZED_RESOURCES_FOLDER_PATH}"
-  cp -R "${SRCROOT}/Pods/$1" "${CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR}/${UNLOCALIZED_RESOURCES_FOLDER_PATH}"
+  case $1 in
+    *\.xib)
+      echo "ibtool --errors --warnings --notices --output-format human-readable-text --compile ${CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR}/${UNLOCALIZED_RESOURCES_FOLDER_PATH}/`basename $1 .xib`.nib ${SRCROOT}/Pods/$1 --sdk ${SDKROOT}"
+      ibtool --errors --warnings --notices --output-format human-readable-text --compile ${CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR}/${UNLOCALIZED_RESOURCES_FOLDER_PATH}/`basename $1 .xib`.nib ${SRCROOT}/Pods/$1 --sdk ${SDKROOT}
+      ;;
+    *)
+      echo "cp -R ${SRCROOT}/Pods/$1 ${CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR}/${UNLOCALIZED_RESOURCES_FOLDER_PATH}"
+      cp -R "${SRCROOT}/Pods/$1" "${CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR}/${UNLOCALIZED_RESOURCES_FOLDER_PATH}"
+      ;;
+  esac
 }
 EOS