CocoaPods and MacRuby (Changelog Interviews #78)

Wynn caught up with Eloy Durán, creator of CocoaPods to talk about the project, MacRuby, and his favorite Objective-C libraries.

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Featuring:

• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Eloy Durán, Ruby developer and creator of CocoaPods.


• CocoaPods, “the best way to manage library dependencies in Objective-C projects.”


• CocoaPods uses a Podfile to specify project dependencies.


• Eloy aspires to achieve the same level of “Twitter hate” that Bundler enjoys.


• CocoaPods started on MacRuby but now is powered by MRI.


• Patches for feature requests are welcomed.


• CocoaPods specs live on GitHub, similar to the Homebrew model.


• The Passenger pane lets you configure Phusion Passenger on the Mac really easily.


• Eloy wants a Ruby lib that shows a proper unified diff for Array, Hash, String with color support.


• Listener Jonah Williams asks how the community can increase adoption.


• Objective-C is the #10 most popular language on GitHub.


• Eloy wrote a file browser for MacVim because he likes Vim but is a “gui guy.”


• If the latest Xcode has got you down, you might try AppCode.


• BlocksKit, the Objective-C block utilities you always wish you had.


• QuincyKit offers crash report managment for your iOS apps.


• JSONKit, a very high performance Objective-C JSON library.


• Wynn likes Test Flight but Eloy has switched to Hockey App.


• Laurent Sansonetti, lead developer of MacRuby is Eloy’s programming hero.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!