From e269b2c55ca55409442ac2f8d3198512aa559119 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taras Kalapun <t.kalapun@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 17:44:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Adding error handling for incorrect Podfile syntax

---
 lib/cocoapods/podfile.rb | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/cocoapods/podfile.rb b/lib/cocoapods/podfile.rb
index 654544e0d4..5e9258ff1c 100644
--- a/lib/cocoapods/podfile.rb
+++ b/lib/cocoapods/podfile.rb
@@ -177,7 +177,11 @@ def self.from_file(path)
         string = File.open(path, 'r:utf-8')  { |f| f.read }
         # TODO: work around for Rubinius incomplete encoding in 1.9 mode
         string.encode!('UTF-8') if string.respond_to?(:encoding) && string.encoding.name != "UTF-8"
-        eval(string, nil, path.to_s)
+        begin
+          eval(string, nil, path.to_s)
+        rescue Exception => e
+          raise Informative, "Podfile syntax error:  #{e.inspect}"
+        end
       end
       podfile.defined_in_file = path
       podfile.validate!