Cache CocoaPods for faster rebuild and indexing Xcode project

Rugby
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“Like Ruby but with g”


Motivation

Working on a project with a huge amount of remote pods I had some troubles:
- Slow and unnecessary indexing of remote pods targets, which implementation I rarely try to edit;
- Redundant rebuild time, probably as a result of problems CocoaPods hooks or Xcode build system;
- Freezing UI during navigation.

You can read
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full story on my blog.

Description

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Rugby is CLI tool that was developed to solve the above problems:
+ Cache all remote pods dependencies and remove their targets from the Pods project;
+ Rebuild only changed remote pods;
+ Remove unnecessary sources from a project and reduce project size;
+ Drop any unneeded targets with sources and resources by RegEx.

What makes it different?

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Not a dependency

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Doesn’t change Podfile

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Custom steps

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Metrics after each command


Fancy log output

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Swiftish!

Ruby alternatives:
- CocoaPods Binary
- PodBuilder
- CocoaPods Binary Cache

Discussions

You can read more about
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Rugby in discussions section.
Feel free to report any issues or suggest some new feature requests.

Quick start with Mint
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mint install swiftyfinch/rugby

How to use
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Run in your project directory after each pod install:

pod install && rugby

Or read more about Plans
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Documentation
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Command Description

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Help

General Rugby documentation.

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Cache

Convert remote pods to prebuilt dependencies.

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Plans

Run a predefined sequence of commands.

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Focus

Keep only selected targets and all their dependencies.

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Drop

Remove any targets by RegEx.

Maybe Roadmap

  • Open source
  • Optimization
  • CI
    • Pull requests CI
    • Move e2e tests to Fastlane
    • Unit tests
    • Speed up e2e tests
  • Improve Cache command

Author

Vyacheslav Khorkov
Twitter: @SwiftyFinch
Blog: swiftyfinch.github.io
Feel free to contact me for any questions.

GitHub

https://github.com/SwiftyFinch/Rugby