Use CocoaPods to Management Dependence in Xcode5

What is CocoaPods?

  • CocoaPods is a tools used to management the Third party code in IOS project

How to install it?

  • use the ruby gem to install
    • sudo gem install cocoapods
    • and the ruby should be above ruby 2.0
    • pod setup
      • this step is download the info in the ~/.cocoapods
      • and you can use du -sh * to see how it process
    • if the gem is too old
      • use sudo gem update --system
  • most inportantly
    • for the ruby’s software source is using the Amazon could and will be block by the great fire wall.

    • so you need to change to ruby temperatly

      gem sources --remove https://rubygems.org/ gem sources -a http://ruby.taobao.org/

    • after that
      • you can install the pod
  • and when you need to use the pod
    • change back to the origin source

how to use it?

  • we will need a file called Podfile
    • and the content of it is
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platform :ios, '7.0'
pod 'Mantle'
pod 'LBBlurredImage'
pod 'TSMessages'
pod 'ReactiveCocoa'
- then press `ctrl + O` and rename into `Podfile`
- press `ctrl + x` to exit
  • after that
    • use pod install
      • and you will see
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$ pod install
Analyzing dependencies
CocoaPods 0.28.0 is available.
Downloading dependencies
Installing HexColors (2.2.1)
Installing LBBlurredImage (0.1.0)
Installing Mantle (1.3.1)
Installing ReactiveCocoa (2.1.7)
Installing TSMessages (0.9.4)
Generating Pods project
Integrating client project
[!] From now on use `SimpleWeather.xcworkspace`.
  • and the Cocoapods will create a xxxxx.xcworkspce

Something else

  • after you use pod install
    • a file called Podfile.lock will be generated and this file should not be add into the .gitignore.
    • for this file will lock on all the version of the dependences
    • and you will not be able to change the version of these dependences even you use pod install
    • and only the command pod update will work.

generate the doc

  • use brew install appledoc to generate the Third party library doc

search the library you want in the cocapods library

  • use pod search library_name
    • like pod search json
IOS
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