Cocoapods: No way to install beta versions of cocoapods through Homebrew

[davecom]

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What did you do?

brew install --devel cocoapods

What did you expect to happen?

Get CocoaPods 1.6.0 beta 1 through homebrew.

What happened instead?

Error: No devel block is defined for cocoapods

CocoaPods Environment

### Stack

CocoaPods : 1.5.3
Ruby : ruby 2.3.7p456 (2018-03-28 revision 63024) [universal.x86_64-darwin17]
RubyGems : 2.7.6
Host : Mac OS X 10.13.6 (17G65)
Xcode : 10.0 (10A255)
Git : git version 2.17.1 (Apple Git-112)
Ruby lib dir : /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib
Repositories : master - https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git @ 9a688d408a931212ae72f0a9150b0a1b0a793467

### Installation Source

Executable Path: /usr/local/Cellar/cocoapods/1.5.3/libexec/bin/pod

### Plugins

cocoapods-deintegrate : 1.0.2
cocoapods-plugins : 1.0.0
cocoapods-search : 1.0.0
cocoapods-stats : 1.0.0
cocoapods-trunk : 1.3.0
cocoapods-try : 1.1.0
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Project that demonstrates the issue

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[segiddins]

I guess you can add that block to the home brew definition?

[lixiaodongdg]

Yes, I also found this problem, but I can pass $ [sudo] gem install cocoapods --pre

[mxcl]

Why did you open this? Do it yourself! Homebrew is designed so anyone can edit the formula. Burdening CocoaPods developers with this is just selfish.

[davecom]

Burdening CocoaPods developers with this is just selfish.

Hi @mxcl,
Your language is very strong. Calling someone "selfish" for opening an issue when they are just trying to point out something to be helpful is not a way to encourage them to contribute. I don't really know how cocoapods works and I don't really know how homebrew works from an organizational perspective. As an outsider, I simply figured that the same people who maintain cocoapods are probably the people who maintain cocoapods in homebrew. I'm probably wrong. You may be a great developer, but your tone here sucks.
Best,
Dave

[mxcl]

Fair point, I apologize. I just have sympathy for the maintainers here who already have plenty to do.

[amorde]

Here's the current formula: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/cocoapods.rb

Here's a guide to creating Homebrew formulae: https://docs.brew.sh/Formula-Cookbook

I _believe_ this is maintained by the community but I'm honestly not sure. I use Homebrew myself (not for CocoaPods, but other things) but am not familiar with how the formula are updated. It looks like there's a command you can run to create a PR automagically.

If someone who is already familiar with this stuff would be willing to contribute it would be very much appreciated :) Ideally there would be some sort of option to install the beta, but by default the production version would be installed.

[mxcl]

K, well, because I feel like a douche, I'm adding this, one moment.

[mxcl]

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/32829

[mxcl]

This is now merged. Ticket can be closed?

I'll check the docs for this repo to see if it makes sense to add this anywhere.

[amorde]

Added in https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/32829 - thanks again @mxcl!

You can install the beta version with brew install cocoapods --devel

[mxcl]

I'll check the docs for this repo to see if it makes sense to add this anywhere

brew doesn’t seem to be mentioned anywhere, so not changing any CocoaPods docs.

[amorde]

Thanks for checking, I think you are right that it isn't mentioned

[anohren]

I don't know anything about Homebrew so I don't know if this is supposed to still work, but I thought I'd add that I got the same error as OP just in case it is. Had to use gem install cocoapods --pre instead.

[amorde]

@anohren this was added by @mxcl, so you should be able to brew install cocoapods --devel

[mxcl]

The brew core team removed all --devel specs from the main tap a few days ago, so my work was for nothing. Your only option is CocoaPods.

[anohren]

That explains why it was so hard to find a brew equivalent. Thanks for the update 👍

[amorde]

Ah, bummer. Thank you @mxcl for the info on that