Workspace not integrating with Cocoapods

[markflowers]

Setting up a project with Liftoff, the project is missing all of the integration with CocoaPods. I attached a screenshot of the Build Phase showing that libPods.a isn't included in the project, not any of the other integration.

I feel like maybe I'm just missing something, but I did a pod install separately and it still didn't update the project file correctly.

[gfontenot]

Are you overriding the default Podfile? By default, we only include pods in the testing bundle, so nothing would be included in the app target.

[markflowers]

Yeah, my idea was to go ahead and include a couple pods that we use on pretty much all of our projects.

That's not really an issue for me though since we can just manually do that after the project sets up. But more of the issue is that the project file doesn't even update if I modify the Podfile after Liftoff is done running.

[gfontenot]

Can you paste your Podfile? Are the default pods included in the test target?

[markflowers]

Nevermind, disregard the moron in the corner.

I didn't pay attention to the target in the Podfile. Sorry about that.

I've been working on creating custom project templates with Xcode and it is truly terrible. Thanks for all the work you've put into this already.

[gfontenot]

Ok, cool. Is there anything that I could have done with regards to documentation that would have made this clearer?

[markflowers]

I'm not sure if it really would need to be documented better. Maybe including an empty target for the actual project in the Podfile would help it be more self documenting and obvious. Probably not necessary, but it would have saved me on this I think.

[gfontenot]

Typically we don't create a group for the app target, and instead leave project-wide pods at the base level. Maybe a comment in the default Podfile that says # Add Application pods here would help?

[markflowers]

Oh yeah, you'd need the pods for testing as well possibly ...

Just having a comment would be good enough to make it obvious I think.

[gfontenot]

Cool, I'll add that now. Thanks for the feedback!