Problem installing CocoaPods on MacOS

[kaimacuser]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Steps to reproduce

Try to install cocoapods via (macOS Sonoma 14.1.1 on MacBook Air and MacMini):
sudo gem install cocoapods

Actual results

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

Logs

Logs

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.

Flutter Doctor output

Flutter just complained that cocoapods is not installed - which actually wasn't the case

[ShubhamKNIT]

While working on flutter I also encountered the same issue recently but was able to tackle it and install cocoapods required for macOS. Here is the solution:

brew install ruby

This installed me the ruby required and then i followed the order to install the cocoapods.

[dam-ease]

Thanks for your input @kaimacuser.
@kaimacuser. Can you try out #138293 (comment) to see if it works in your case?

[kaimacuser]

Thank you for the quick answer!
I haven't installed brew yet (I should definitely catch up)

I have found an open issue on the cocoapods GitHub

Their advise was to install a newer version of ruby.

[ShubhamKNIT]

Yeah, Let me know if it works for you.

[github-actions]

Without additional information, we are unfortunately not sure how to resolve this issue. We are therefore reluctantly going to close this bug for now.
If you find this problem please file a new issue with the same description, what happens, logs and the output of 'flutter doctor -v'. All system setups can be slightly different so it's always better to open new issues and reference the related ones.
Thanks for your contribution.

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