How to add cocoapods to existing workspace not project

Question

I am working on a project which is composed of three other projects in a workspace. I want to use CocoaPods to manage my dependecies in the workspace, but CocoaPods always creates its own workspace with only one addtional project. What I want to do is to add CocoaPods project to the workspace that already exists. Is there any simple way to achive that?

Answer 1

In terminal go to directory with your xcworkspace-file.

$ touch Podfile

then in Podfile :

workspace 'YourWorkspace'

target 'YourProjectName' do
    platform :ios, '8.0'
    pod 'your pod' 
    project 'Path to your Project in your workspace'
end

$ pod install

Answer 2

You can specify a workspace in your podfile.

workspace 'MyWorkspace'

Please consult this link for more info: http://guides.cocoapods.org/syntax/podfile.html#workspace