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

Quick, easy, hacky solution:

sudo chmod -R 777 ~/.cocoapods
sudo chmod -R 777 ~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

This is a known issue. There's more on the CocoaPods official web-site.

Answer 4

Answering the original question:

Is sudo installation of cocoaPods the wrong way or normal way? 

When I do a pod install I get:

Analyzing dependencies
CocoaPods 0.36.0.beta.1 is available.
To update use: `sudo gem install cocoapods --pre` 

so I assume sudo is OK.