I'm running the install with an admin account I tried
sudo gem install cocoapods
and
sudo gem install cocoapods -n /usr/local/bin
They both run fine with following output
Fetching cocoapods-1.9.1.gem
Successfully installed cocoapods-1.9.1
Parsing documentation for cocoapods-1.9.1
Installing ri documentation for cocoapods-1.9.1
Done installing documentation for cocoapods after 2 seconds
1 gem installed
however, a simple
pod --version
Returns
zsh: command not found: pod
I'm not too good at managing users accounts or dealing with command shell but I scoured the net and couldn't find a solution. It looks like wherever pod is installed, it doesn't make it to the list of executable applications
The issue was that command line for XCODE was not installed.
First I updated to latest Ruby version and put the version number in the second command (in place of [version]
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
rvm install ruby-[version]
During the install you will see the Software update available from MAcOS popup. Install immediately and continue with prompts in that window (I believe it asks for updates and then asks for install.
It will take a while to run / download / install (it took 2 expressos for me :) )
After that I ran
sudo gem install cocoapods
And restarted my terminal. Now checking it's installed
pod --version
Returns the installed version (1.9.1 for me)