CocoaPods Installation Failure (Unable to resolve dependencies)

Question

I have a problem while installing CocoaPods on MacOS X 10.3. The first try fails with a DependencyError for nap. I install nap and try again with the same result. Uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't help.

andreass-mbp:~ AndreasB$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods
Password:
andreass-mbp:~ AndreasB$ sudo gem uninstall nap
Successfully uninstalled nap-1.0.0
andreass-mbp:~ AndreasB$ sudo gem install nap
Fetching: nap-1.0.0.gem (100%)
Successfully installed nap-1.0.0
Parsing documentation for nap-1.0.0
Installing ri documentation for nap-1.0.0
1 gem installed
andreass-mbp:~ AndreasB$ sudo gem install cocoapods
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::DependencyError)
Unable to resolve dependencies: cocoapods requires nap (~> 0.8); cocoapods-stats requires nap (~> 0.8); cocoapods-core requires nap (~> 0.8.0)

Answer 1

Try installing the pre-release version:

 sudo gem install cocoapods --pre