Cocoapods: Failed to connect to GitHub to update the CocoaPods/Specs specs repo

Question

When running pod repo update the following error is generated:

Updating spec repo `master`
[!] Failed to connect to GitHub to update the CocoaPo         


        

Answer 1

For me the below commands fixed the issue

Removing cocoapods from mac

 sudo gem uninstall cocoapods

Installing cocoapods on mac

sudo gem install cocoapods