Reduce and clarify scope of this project

[cocoapods]

Reduce and clarify scope of this project

[fulldecent]

Some others have recreated the script I did from Bash:

https://gist.github.com/jflinter/7570832/revisions
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/luvtechno/8842522/raw/fe12332eee01bbeae33f47454af9c4f170974e2a/cocoapods_rank.md

[orta]

I figured we should mix this with the work done in https://github.com/pietbrauer/cocoapods-generate-command by @pietbrauer to then generate the template folder in the way we do now, with Xcode projects already generated for you.

I, personally, have been pretty happy with the pod lib create to generate the structure now for three pods ( though I obviously have insider knowledge of the system ) and the biggest pain point has been setting up the structure of setting up my example project to use dev pods and ensuring the separation of the two etc

[pietbrauer]

👍 join forces sounds great!

[ericallam]

I like the sound of being able to create custom pod templates, like we do with Rails templates/builders, but also have the one "opinionated" template that is kept up to date along with updates to CocoaPods.

[pietbrauer]

I looked into the sources a bit deeper now and rolling out a seperate plugin for cocoapods is not useful from my perspective. Instead I would like to get the pod-template in a usable state so that people can fork it and make use of their own templates derived from the original one.

I already made a PR on the main gem to support different template URLs: CocoaPods/CocoaPods#1909

Also I am thinking of sticking with the _CONFIGURE.rb file instead of a custom DSL. Plus on this approach is that people do not need to learn a second DSL and it is more flexible, too.

What do you guys think?

[fabiopelosin]

@pietbrauer My vote would be to stick to the configure file until a specific and clear need for a DSL arises.

[orta]

scope has been reduced in #54. Guide has been created, people can build from the ruby in the pod-template if they want to expand. No DSL, still an option but I'm open to new PRs around this.