How to find if cocoaPods is installed in my mac

Can anyone help to find if cocoaPod is installed in my machine. I was trying to use Google Map in my application. So i was asked to install CocoaPods. Could any one help me explain me the purpose.

What is CocoaPods in Mac?

CocoaPods manages library dependencies for your Xcode projects. The dependencies for your projects are specified in a single text file called a Podfile. CocoaPods will resolve dependencies between libraries, fetch the resulting source code, then link it together in an Xcode workspace to build your project.

try to find pod version by running this in terminal

pod --version

If command not found then you didn't installed

To install cocoapods

sudo gem install cocoapods

Reference : https://cocoapods.org

Solution found: Initially the Cocoapods has to be installed using the command sudo gem install cocoapods (I had some problem with proxies so it dint work for me initially and i resolved it).

To find if Cocoapods is installed or not run cmd (pod --version). if theresult is (Not Found) Pods is not installed. Please check for the internet connection and their proxies, these things took me huge time.