-slidingViewController returns nil during unit tests

[s73v3r]

I installed ECSlidingViewController using Cocoapods. When running unit tests, any view controller that accesses the -slidingViewController property ends up failing because -slidingViewController returns nil. This happens despite the fact that -isKindOfClass and NSStringFromClass both agree that the view controller should be an ECSlidingViewController.

[enriquez]

I tried this out and it looks like Cocoapods doesn't link the test target for some reason. I was able to fix it by telling Cocoapods to link with the test target along with the regular target:

link_with ['MyApp', 'MyAppTests']

[backofthecup]

This still doesn't work. I've tried everything to get this to work:
Added the link_with:

link_with 'PatientMobile', 'PatientMobileTests'
pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 2.4'
pod 'ECSlidingViewController', '~> 2.0.3'

Verified that there are no source files in my test target build phase:

My tests are crashing on this line of code because self.slidingViewController is nil:

 [self.navigationController.view addGestureRecognizer:self.slidingViewController.panGesture];

BTW, I can use the AFNetworking library (also a POD) without any issues in my Tests.

I really like this control, but if it breaks my unit tests, I'll have to use something else.

Do you have any suggestions?

[backofthecup]

@enriquez
This looks like a Test/POD issue returning nil for isKindOfClass method. I finally got this working when I changed my Profile to read:

target 'PatientMobile' do
    pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 2.4'
    pod 'ECSlidingViewController', '~> 2.0.3'
end

target 'PatientMobileTests'  do
    # this pod is not used by PatientMobileTests, but we need something here to ensure we properly link cocoapods to the PatientMobileTests target
    pod 'OCMock', :head
end

link_with 'PatientMobile', 'PatientMobileTests'