unit testing - Libraries not found when using CocoaPods with iOS logic tests

Question

I am trying to write some iOS logic tests against classes in my project that use functionality from some of the libraries in my podspec. I am using the standard unit test bundle provided in Xcode (although not Application Tests, just Unit Tests).

For example, I use Magical Record, and I have that library linked in my podspec. It is present in the Pods project in my workspace, and works as expected when the app is running in the simulator or on the device. When I try to link to the test the object that uses Magical Record, however, I get a linker error stating that it can't find the selectors from Magical Record. I have tried updating my HEADER_SEARCH_PATH in my logic testing bundle, even hard coding it to the headers directory created by CocoaPods, but no luck.

I can run unit tests against classes that do not use CocoaPods libraries with no problem.

Am I going about this wrong? Should I be doing something else to get the compiler to see the CocoaPods libraries?

Answer 1

CocoaPods 1.0 has changed the syntax for this. It now looks like this:

def shared_pods
    pod 'SSKeychain', '~> 0.1.4'
    ...
end

target 'Sail' do
    shared_pods
end

target 'Sail-iOS' do
    shared_pods
end

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Pre CocoaPods 1.0 answer

What you want to use is link_with from your Podfile. Something like:

link_with 'MainTarget', 'MainTargetTests'

Then run pod install again.