Installing CocoaPods: no response

Question

Trying to install CocoaPods from the terminal:

$ sudo gem install cocoapods

After entering my root password, nothing happens.

How can I debug that?

Keirakeiser

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. – Lammas

That was indeed very slow, but finally worked. – Keirakeiser

Answer 1

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.

Cowboy

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

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

instead of -V you can use --verbose – Weakly

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

@NicolasMiari If you are used to a *Nix OS you would not be complaining :) – Demission

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

Thanks. I had also given up, and kept quitting, as nothing appeared. Remind me again, what year is this...? – Natividad

Answer 2

update gem to the newest release using

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

Volk

Answer 3

I had to wait at least 5 minutes before:

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

Appears

Keirakeiser

Answer 4

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

1. Open Activity Monitor

2. Select Network option

3. Check below Google Chrome. (ruby downloading)

Myelitis

It is true that ruby is downloading cocoapods slowly. – Gametophore

Answer 5

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".

Irrevocable

Answer 6

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

Lucite

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

Answer 7

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

Pooler

Answer 8

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

Ellis

Answer 9

Try Installing latest Git version from

https://git-scm.com/downloads

This worked for me

Write the following commands in Terminal:

1. export GEM_HOME=~/.gems
2. export PATH=$GEM_HOME/bin:$PATH
3. gem install cocoapods
4. Set the path of the project with the command cd path/to/project
5. pod init
6. Open podfile
7. Add appropriate pod
8. pod install

Bertabertasi