Installing CocoaPods: no response

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For others wondering the same, installing the gem takes forever. If you run:

export GEM_HOME=~/.gems
export PATH=$GEM_HOME/bin:$PATH

gem install cocoapods -V

Installing with flag V enables verbose output which will let you see all the output as it is going through the download and install, it's quite a lot.

update gem to the newest release using

sudo gem update --system and it should work a bit faster

I had to wait at least 5 minutes before:

Building native extensions. This could take a while...

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You should do it in two separated commands:

First:

gem update

Then:

export GEM_HOME=~/.gems
export PATH=$GEM_HOME/bin:$PATH

gem install cocoapods

It's not stuck, it's downloading file for ruby from the internet. you can check this by following below steps:

1. Open Activity Monitor

2. Select Network option

3. Check below Google Chrome. (ruby downloading)