The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

CocoaPods and MacRuby (Interview)

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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!

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