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?

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.

Answer 2

update gem to the newest release using

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

Answer 3

I had to wait at least 5 minutes before:

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

Appears

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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)

Answer 6

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