CocoaPods and MacRuby (Interview)

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.

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