How I use Cocoapod locally

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1. Preparation

Setup a local CocoaPods directory, and register it with CocoaPods

mkdir -p ~/CocoaPods/Local
(cd ~/CocoaPods/Local; git init)
pod repo add ~/CocoaPods/Local

2. Update local CocoaPod

   Whenever you have a local version you want to use in some other project, use the update-localpod script to update the local CocoaPod. It runs through all podspec files, and installed a version which points to the local repository instead of the remote.

   See this script: https://gist.github.com/2009088

3. Update references in target project.

   rm -rf Pods/ pod install

I just randomly found this.... And thought I should comment...

You can point to local pods by setting up your Podfile like this:

pod 'MyPod', :local => "/Path/To/Pod"

Wait... Now that I look at it.. You requested this feature and it was added :D
CocoaPods/CocoaPods#156

I think the local option is deprecated :/ I just tried this...
pod 'NewPod', :local => "../"

and it gives me this warning...
[!] The :local option of the Podfile has been renamed to :path and is deprecated.

Cocoapods 0.29.0

pod --version
0.34.2

pod 'UpYunSDK', :path => '/Users/xxx/iOS/ios-form-sdk'

very ok. 😄

https://github.com/upyun/ios-form-sdk

i am trying to execute pod in offline, for that i downloaded spec-master and followed your mentioned procedure like
pod repo add master ~/.cocoapods/Spec-master

Getting below error

To setup the master specs repo, please run pod setup

@bluealert Your solution worked in the latest cocoapods and xcode. Cheers.