CocoaPods Acknowledgements helper helper Generates output suitable for a non-centered Acknowledgements.plist from Pods-acknowledgements.markdown.

gistfile1.rb

#! /usr/bin/ruby
# This script generates standard output suitable for writing to an
# Acknowledgements.plist file to be included in the Settings.bundle
# of an iOS app. Call it from a post_install hook in your Podfile.
#
# Feel free to improve--this is not the classiest way of doing this. 
# Better would be to add this functionality into CocoaPods itself.
#
# It relies on the Pods-acknowledgements.markdown file generated by
# CocoaPods 0.19.1 Make addjustments to that path here if necessary.
FILEPATH="Pods/Pods-acknowledgements.markdown"

def plist_chunk(string, type)
    string.strip!
    chunk =  "      <dict>\n"
    chunk << "        <key>Type</key>\n"
    chunk << "        <string>PSGroupSpecifier</string>\n"
    chunk << "        <key>#{type}</key>\n"
    chunk << "        <string>#{string}</string>\n"
    chunk << "      </dict>"
    return chunk
end

# Title chunks are left-aligned and bold.
def title_chunk(string)
    return plist_chunk(string, 'Title')
end

# Footer chunks are centered and not bold.
def footer_chunk(string)
    return plist_chunk(string, 'FooterText')
end

preamble = %{
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>PreferenceSpecifiers</key>
    <array>
}

conclusion = %{
    </array>
  <key>StringsTable</key>
  <string>Acknowledgements</string>
  <key>Title</key>
  <string>Acknowledgements</string>
</dict>
</plist>
}

file = File.open(FILEPATH, "rb")
contents = file.read

licenses = contents.split(/^##/)
cocoapods_footer = licenses[-1].to_a[-2,2].join
licenses[-1] = licenses[-1].to_a[0..-2].join # The last two lines aren't part of the actual licenses.
                                             # We'll add it as a footer at the bottom.
puts preamble
puts footer_chunk('This application makes use of the following third party libraries:')

licenses[1..-1].each do |license|
  paragraphs = license.split("\n\n")

  paragraphs.each do |paragraph|
    # get rid of line breaks inside paragraphs. Many license files are hard-wrapped at n characters.
    paragraph.gsub!(/\s*\n\s*/," ")
    chunk = title_chunk(paragraph)
    puts chunk
  end

  # Add some space between licenses. You could use some symbol here, too.
  puts footer_chunk('')
end

puts footer_chunk(cocoapods_footer)

puts conclusion