Cocoapods: turning MagicalRecord logging off

Question

Turning MagicalRecord logging off requires a #define to be made before it is first included in the project, but in the case of a project managed by Cocoapods I have no acces

Answer 1

You can use a post_install hook to modify pretty much any build setting. Just add this code to your Podfile:

post_install do |installer|
  target = installer.project.targets.find{|t| t.to_s == "Pods-MagicalRecord"}
    target.build_configurations.each do |config|
        s = config.build_settings['GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS']
        s = [ '$(inherited)' ] if s == nil;
        s.push('MR_ENABLE_ACTIVE_RECORD_LOGGING=0') if config.to_s == "Debug";
        config.build_settings['GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS'] = s
    end
end

Note that this will only disable logging in the debug configuration - logging is disabled by default in the release configuration.