Creating a CocoaPod | Ray Wenderlich

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Learn how to create a CocoaPod. Enhance discoverability of your framework and automate installation with the popular CocoaPods dependency manager.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/4950-creating-a-cocoapod
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This is a nice start for CocoaPod generation. Will you be showing how to update and delete Pods as well?

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Thanks. They are not in my pipeline, but I don’t know future plans.

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I’d like to say thank you for the screencast, but for me it doesn’t work so smooth like on the video. What version of cocoapods do you use?

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There are a lot of things that can go wrong. I was using Xcode 8 beta 3 and CocoaPods 1.something.

If you have two Xcode versions, make sure that you are using the right one for xcodebuild. You can specify it in Preferences > Locations > Command Line Tools.

What errors are you getting?

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Thanks Caroline, I enjoyed the video. I was wondering if you knew of best practice for which cocoapod specific files should be committed to version control when working on a project which uses pods? If the answer is “it depends” or the likes, I was wondering if you could shed some light on what you generally prefer to include when starting a new project which will use pods.

Thanks!

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Thanks Caroline! That was very interesting and useful. And what about libraries / frameworks that must be distributed as a binary (private source code). Do you plan to show how that can be done?

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I’m a simple soul - I just commit everything. The manual says it’s up to you: CocoaPods Guides - Using CocoaPods

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@anver - I personally currently have no plans to do that, but whether anyone else has, I don’t know.

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@caroline I was wondering if the following scenario is possible.

Lets say I have a project that is a CocoaPod and needs some JS files to run.
Those JS files are hosted in another git repo that is not a CocoaPod.
Is it possible to use these files as a dependency of some sorts in the Pod spec file?

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@anthony_lockett - dependencies have to be pods. I’m afraid I don’t know how you would go about having JS files as a dependency.

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@caroline When creating the podspec is there a way to have a local repo for example instead of s.source {:git =>} is there a way to have a local file path.

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@anthony_lockett

Hi - try: spec.source = { :path }

You might find these document useful:

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Thank you very much for this video, is very util for me.

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