Improved search

[fabiopelosin]

Inspired by the work of @yas375 I'm proposing some improvements to pod search

• Colors: I'm not sure if there could be any compatibility issues or ugly coloring with some color schemes.
• Description wrap: currently long descriptions are wrapped by the terminal and lose indentation. I found a nice way to word split a string at a given colum. However, I'm not sure on how to properly credit a short function.
• Github watchers and followers: this is very useful for me. However it makes the search slower because a request to GitHub is made for every pod. If accepted I plan to introduce an option to disable it and a very short (2s) timeout.

Here is an example of what I have. Layout needs a bit of fine tuning.

[yas375]

It's very nice!

About github: maybe better to not include watchers and forks by default and only include this info by calling search command with specific flag?

[alloy]

Indeed, it's very nice!

But, I agree with Victor that we hold probably not enable the github info by default, as it is not essential information and obviously adds lag due to each network connection, which you will not want when trying multiple searches.

It’s probably best to work on having an RC file asap so that the users can set their own defaults.

[fabiopelosin]

@yas375 and @alloy what do you think about the option name?

[alloy]

@irrationalfab What do you think about always including the source, but make the stats part optional and changing the option name to --stats?

[fabiopelosin]

@alloy this is a much cleaner approach.

[fabiopelosin]

Btw, sorry for the push noise: I missed your comment and then I did a misstake that I realized only after push.

[alloy]

Awesome! Please merge :)

Btw, sorry for the push noise: I missed your comment and then I did a misstake that I realized only after push.

Don’t worry man, it’s only a sign of someone doing work, I can’t have any problem with that ;)

[yas375]

cool feature!

thank you, @irrationalfab =)

P.S. I like --stat param name) And sorry for delay with reply: I don't have much free time at work((

[fabiopelosin]

cool feature!

Hahah.. thanks, but you share part of the credit as it was inspired by your changes.

I like --stat param name

Actually it is --stats as suggested by alloy, however I was undecided wether to use the plural or not. Any opinion about that?

[alloy]

According to wikipedia, ‘stats’ is the more often used form for ‘statistics’ in British English contexts.

Statistics are: ( used with a plural verb ) the numerical facts or data themselves..

So --stats means: ‘shows statistics’.

For some unknown reason I find British English more charming :)

[fabiopelosin]

Such a great explanation would convince even this guy.

[alloy]

Note that I could very well be wrong, though ;) English is not my native language.

[yas375]

@irrationalfab something went wrong on showing stats for ASIWebPageRequest.

➜  CocoaPods git:(master) ./bin/pod search --stats asiweb
--> ASIWebPageRequest (1.8.1)
    The ASIWebPageRequest class included with ASIHTTPRequest lets you download
        complete webpages, including external resources like images and stylesheets.
    - Homepage: http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/ASIWebPageRequest
/Users/yas/code/CocoaPods/lib/cocoapods/command/error_report.rb:38:in `report': undefined method `read' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
    from /Users/yas/code/CocoaPods/lib/cocoapods/command.rb:62:in `rescue in run'
    from /Users/yas/code/CocoaPods/lib/cocoapods/command.rb:54:in `run'
    from ./bin/pod:11:in `<main>'

I will fix in a minute error with undefined method in error_report. But last error occur on creating nice error report and there are problem in lib/cocoapods/command.rb:62 (

cool feature!

Hahah.. thanks, but you share part of the credit as it was inspired by your changes.

I talked about colored output and repo stats)

[yas375]

here is details of problem mentioned in my previous post:

➜  CocoaPods git:(master) ./bin/pod search --stats asiweb
--> ASIWebPageRequest (1.8.1)
    The ASIWebPageRequest class included with ASIHTTPRequest lets you download
        complete webpages, including external resources like images and stylesheets.
    - Homepage: http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/ASIWebPageRequest
Oh no, an error occurred. 

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### Stack

* Host version: Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50)
* Xcode version: 4.3.2 (4E2002)
* Ruby version: ruby 1.9.3p125 (2012-02-16 revision 34643) [x86_64-darwin11.3.0]
* Ruby lib dir: /Users/yas/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib
* RubyGems version: 1.8.19
* CocoaPods version: 0.5.1
* Specification repositories:
  - master - git://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git @ 2799f8dcb3285134fa27d84ae8dc1e902717c367


### Podfile

```ruby

```


### Error

```
undefined method `match' for nil:NilClass
  /Users/yas/code/CocoaPods/lib/cocoapods/command/search.rb:57:in `puts_github_info'
  /Users/yas/code/CocoaPods/lib/cocoapods/command/search.rb:36:in `block in run'
  /Users/yas/code/CocoaPods/lib/cocoapods/command/search.rb:29:in `each'
  /Users/yas/code/CocoaPods/lib/cocoapods/command/search.rb:29:in `run'
  /Users/yas/code/CocoaPods/lib/cocoapods/command.rb:56:in `run'
  ./bin/pod:11:in `<main>'
```