How to use cocoapods with playground?

Question

I am trying out some pods before I implement it with my main project I want to make sure it works properly for my requirement. Easiest way is to try it with playground.

I tried pod init with playground which doesn't work

[!] No xcode project found, please specify one

Help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

This is an old question but shows up at the top of Google.

This Could Be Us But You Playing is a command line tool that creates a new Xcode playground with an integrated cocoapod. It also supports integrating multiple cocoapods at once. It's a single command.

1. To Install: gem install cocoapods-playgrounds
2. To Use: pod playgrounds Alamofire
3. Wait for playground to open then build it.

Answer 2

For those using the pre-release 1.0 version of CocoaPods, the 'link_with' directive that @samuel used is deprecated. I tried simply adding my playground as a target in my Podfile, but CocoaPods doesn't recognize it as a valid target.

I found that adding a scheme for the pod I need to use and building it manually works as discussed here.

To demonstrate this in action, I have created a sample project with Alamofire integrated into a Playground here.

I also came across this library. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but it looks promising.

Aside: if you'd like to make asynchronous requests in a Playground (e.g. with Alamofire), you'll need to enable indefinite execution as described here.

I hope this helps.