Alcatraz plugin isn't installing?

Question

According to this github entry https://github.com/chendo/FuzzyAutocompletePlugin, I should be able to install FuzzyAutocompletePlugin into XCode 5 using Alcatraz.

When I try to follow the very simple terminal instructions for installing Alcatraz posted at the github entry https://github.com/mneorr/alcatraz, I don't see a plugin manager in my Window menu of XCode after restarting it. No errors were shown in the terminal, however I did see 2 lines that looked like download lines. The first one went to 100%, the other 0%.

mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins;
curl -L https://s3.amazonaws.com/xcode-fun-time/alcatraz.tar.gz | tar xv -C ~/Library/Application\ Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins -
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                             Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   237    0   237    0     0   1126      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  2788
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0x Alcatraz.xcplugin/

So I tried downloading the repository to rebuild it, however I can't build it because I get errors. The workspace has a missing project (Pods.xcodeproj). The project has entries for files that aren't there either.

I would love to try out Alcatraz, however I find myself stuck. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I’m sorry Aaron, but this is a known bug in the prebuilt version of Alcatraz. This has been fixed in 74edeba134c1; unfortunately, the developers have yet to update the prebuilt version of Alcatraz. I’ve filed a bug with them on GitHub because of this.

Until then, I’m afraid you’ll have to build Alcatraz from source. The missing Pods.xcodeproj file you mentioned is actually generated by a program called CocoaPods. Follow the directions on their website to install it (I had to build another copy of Ruby to get it to work; I used Homebrew.) Once CocoaPods is installed, open a Terminal to the directory containing the Podfile file and run the command pod install. Once that command completes successfully, you will be able to successfully open and build Alcatraz.