Installing CocoaPods: no response

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Trying to install CocoaPods from the terminal:

$ sudo gem install cocoapods

After entering my root password, nothing happens.

How can I debug that?

Sounds like you should check out RVM or rbenv for managing Ruby stuff. The Ruby support that ships with OS X seems quite slow with stuff like that. — Keith Smiley
– Keith Smiley, Commented Jan 17, 2013 at 14:04
@KeithSmiley These days, this would be bad advice. I went down that route in the past, but it caused more trouble tbh. CocoaPods officially states on their website "CocoaPods is built with Ruby and is installable with the default Ruby available on macOS. We recommend you use the default ruby.", so best to stick with that. rvm is great if you are a Ruby developer, but their .rvmrc approach is not straight-forward, there are no pre-built ruby binaries and updating CocoaPods often leads to a version puzzle with ruby. CocoaPods is only for macOS, it doesn't need to be portable whatsoever. — Martin Braun
– Martin Braun, Commented May 28 at 18:49

Iulian Onofrei · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-30 13:44:25Z

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For others wondering the same, installing the gem takes forever. If you run:

export GEM_HOME=~/.gems
export PATH=$GEM_HOME/bin:$PATH

gem install cocoapods -V

Installing with flag V enables verbose output which will let you see all the output as it is going through the download and install, it's quite a lot.

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Alex Over a year ago

Also, updating the package manager seems to speed things up alot. sudo gem update --system

onmyway133 Over a year ago

Just a note for -V (it is in uppercase) :D

Hashem Aboonajmi Over a year ago

instead of -V you can use --verbose

Nicolas Miari Over a year ago

This verbose option should be on by default... I aborted the install three times before I found this post :~

Nathan Kellert Over a year ago

Great answer. I would have never figured out it was working otherwise. Just curious. Anyone know why its so full of 302 redirects?

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Hulvej · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-13 21:49:41Z

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update gem to the newest release using

sudo gem update --system and it should work a bit faster

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Pierre de LESPINAY · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-16 09:44:09Z

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I had to wait at least 5 minutes before:

Building native extensions. This could take a while...

Appears

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Cœur · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-14 10:21:08Z

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It's not stuck, it's downloading file for ruby from the internet. you can check this by following below steps:

Open Activity Monitor
Select Network option
Check below Google Chrome. (ruby downloading)

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Yang_____ Over a year ago

It is true that ruby is downloading cocoapods slowly.

Phat Huynh · Accepted Answer · 2023-10-23 20:13:29Z

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MacOS Sonoma 14.0, installing cocoapods for flutter doctor check.

I have cocoapods installed by this way:

Step 1 (install HomeBrew)

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)

Step 2 (Run these two commands in your terminal to add Homebrew to your PATH)

echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> /Users/”YOUR USER FORLDER”/.zprofile  
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

Step 3 (now you can install cocoapods)

brew install cocoapods

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Pablo Miranda Over a year ago

Just do this instead of using gem. Way better and cleaner.

brunshte Apr 3 at 14:04

Please add " at the end of the command in Step 1.

Iulian Onofrei · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-30 13:45:16Z

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You should do it in two separated commands:

First:

gem update

Then:

export GEM_HOME=~/.gems
export PATH=$GEM_HOME/bin:$PATH

gem install cocoapods

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QIT Schedular · Accepted Answer · 2023-06-08 10:37:24Z

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Yes it takes forever keep calm and wait for at least 5 minutes , then you will see something, I did that in Ventura 13, I had to wait for 10 minutes. Hope this is helps, its like "light at the end of the tunnel".

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Giovanni · Accepted Answer · 2023-06-13 06:02:24Z

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I received an error: "Error installing cocoapods: The last version of activesupport (>= 5.0, < 8) to support your Ruby & RubyGems was 6.1.7.3. Try installing it with gem install activesupport -v 6.1.7.3 and then running the current command again activesupport requires Ruby version >= 2.7.0. The current ruby version is 2.6.10.210."

So, I had to run 'sudo gem install activesupport -v 6.1.7.3', for Ventura 13

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Iulian Onofrei · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-30 13:46:12Z

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Try Installing latest Git version from

https://git-scm.com/downloads

This worked for me

Write the following commands in Terminal:

export GEM_HOME=~/.gems
export PATH=$GEM_HOME/bin:$PATH
gem install cocoapods
Set the path of the project with the command cd path/to/project
pod init
Open podfile
Add appropriate pod
pod install

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