cocoaPods pod install Permission denied

Question

This is the short version:

When I run

pod install 

in an Xcode project I get

[!] Pod::Executable pull erro

Answer 1

The issue is with Mac OS X's default installation of Ruby. The Ruby/Gems installation is owned by root in the location you specified.

This is normal behavior unless you install a Ruby manager. I would recommend rbenv but RVM is popular as well.

These installed your Ruby installation in your $HOME folder. This way your user owns the Ruby and gem executables.