We’re big fans of CocoaPods here at Gaslight. We like having dependencies managed for us, source fetched and compiler and linker flags set automatically.
We’ve been using a proprietary library called SensibleTableView for building out TableViews quickly in our project. Since it’s proprietary, we can’t just give Cocoapods a podspec and fetch it automatically, but I didn’t want our project cluttered with dependencies. So, here’s how we made it work.
Enter Local Podspecs
CocoaPods allows the use of local podspecs. That means you can use a local path to a directory on your computer and write a Podspec in that directory and use CocoaPods just like you’d expect. Here’s what our Podfile looks like:
platform :ios, '5.1'
inhibit_all_warnings!
pod 'SensibleTableView', :local => "vendor/frameworks/STV 3.1.3 Pro/Source Code/SensibleTableView/"
pod 'STV+CoreData', :local => "vendor/frameworks/STV 3.1.3 Pro/Source Code/STV+CoreData/"
Of note, inhibit_all_warnings! is a pretty handy little setting to hide all the noise in libraries you’re using from CocoaPods. It’s nice to remove a bit of noise you don’t need to focus on at the moment.
Here’s the Podspec for SensibleTableView:
Pod::Spec.new do |s|
s.name = 'SensibleTableView'
s.version = '3.1.3'
s.platform = :ios
s.ios.deployment_target = '5.0'
s.prefix_header_file = 'SensibleTableView/SensibleTableView-Prefix.pch'
s.source_files = 'SensibleTableView/STV-Core/*.{h,m}'
s.requires_arc = true
end
It’s path is vendor/frameworks/STV 3.1.3 Pro/Source Code/SensibleTableView/SensibleTableView.podspec, if you’re wondering.
That’s it. Cocoapods is great and you should be using it, too.
