[krausefx]

Thanks for your feedback, that's really valuable for me.

You are right, installation is not super easy right now, due to Ruby dependencies, which also depend on Nokogiri and phantomjs.

Have you seen the guide, that helps you with getting and up and running quite quickly? https://github.com/KrauseFx/fastlane/blob/master/GUIDE.md

I tried this on a fresh Yosemite installation, and it went quite fluent.

Let me know if that helps you and how I can link the guide better to make it better visible.

[ehtd]

It is quite helpful. My approach would be to create a project that gradually adds one by one of the tools.

For example first get the gems installed and with that you could just add to the lane the increment build number.

Then install homebrew and xctool and add that tool to the lane.

In that way, you can start using fastlane gradually and not install all the dependencies at first. It is the approach I would take, but I know there could be many others for such a complex tool.

[viktorbenei]

Maybe a Vagrant like model would help: install the base fastlane tool and then install extensions with `$ fastlane extension install X`