A quick cheat sheet for using CocoaPods

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CocoaPods project setup

Create a Podfile at the root of your project

platform :ios

pod 'AFNetworking'
pod 'OHAttributedLabel'

target :MyAppTests, :exclusive => true do
  pod 'Kiwi'
end

Then install your project's dependencies

pod install

Configure git to work with Cocoapods:

echo "\n# CocoaPods\nPods" >> .gitignore
git add -f .gitignore Podfile Podfile.lock **/*contents.xcworkspacedata

Bundler

You might consider configuring your project to use Bundler for managing it's dependency on CocoaPods itself. Yes, this is a package manager for your package manager, but it adds an additional explicit declaration of project dependencies and it helps automatically setup boxes with Bundler installed.

bundle install --path vendor/bundle
bundle exec pod install

I'm usually adding the :deployment_target on the top as well, like

platform :ios, :deployment_target => "5.0"

Good idea!