install cocoapods on latest macOS

[kaimacuser]

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What did you do?

I tried to install cocoapods on macOS Sonoma 14.1.1 (on MacbookAir and MacMini)
sudo gem install cocoapods

What did you expect to happen?

I expected that pod is installed width all dependencies correctly.

What happened instead?

I received an error message:
ERROR: Error installing cocoapods: There are no versions of cocoapods-downloader (>= 2.0) compatible with your Ruby & RubyGems. Maybe try installing an older version of the gem you're looking for? cocoapods-downloader requires Ruby version >= 2.7.4. The current ruby version is 2.6.10.210.

Temporary Solution

It trys to install cocoapods but runs into an error because the version of ruby, that is delivered with macOS, seems to be too old for installing the latest version of cocoapods.

The solution for me was to install an older version of cocoapods which seems to be based on Ruby 2.6.* (the version macOS ist delivered with). While executing the command I was asked to install a few other things, so the final order was:

1. sudo gem install drb -v 2.0.5
2. sudo gem install activesupport -v 6.1.7.6
3. sudo gem install cocoapods -v 1.13.0

[saldous]

Duplicate of: #12122

[MaxHsu911]

It works!! Thanks for sharing!!

[AbdulAmmic]

It works, Thank you.

[ociclica]

Worked perfectly, thanks!

[elvsp1n]

Try upgrading ruby before installing cocoapods with:

brew install ruby
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/ruby/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/ruby/lib"' >> ~/.zshrc 
echo 'export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/ruby/include"' >> ~/.zshrc
. ~/.zshrc
ruby -v
sudo gem install cocoapods
# Optional
# At the moment of writing, there seems to be an update for the gems, apply it with the following
sudo gem update --system 3.5.9

Cheers,
EE