flutter doctor not finding cocoa pods - xcode

Question

I have an issue that tells me to install cocoapods using gem, but the flutter doctor couldn't find it.
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 1.22.4, on macOS 11.0 20A2411 darwin-arm, locale en-IN)
• Flutter version 1.22.4 at /Users/kirandhoundiyal/flutter
• Framework revision 1aafb3a8b9 (3 weeks ago), 2020-11-13 09:59:28 -0800
• Engine revision 2c956a31c0
• Dart version 2.10.4
[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 30.0.2)
• Android SDK at /Volumes/apps/Android/sdk
• Platform android-30, build-tools 30.0.2
• ANDROID_HOME = /Volumes/apps/Android/sdk
• ANDROID_SDK_ROOT = /Volumes/apps/Android/sdk
• Java binary at: /Volumes/apps/Android
Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build
1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6915495)
• All Android licenses accepted.
[✗] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS
✗ Xcode installation is incomplete; a full installation is necessary for iOS
development.
Download at: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/download/
Or install Xcode via the App Store.
Once installed, run:
sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
sudo xcodebuild -runFirstLaunch
✗ CocoaPods installed but not working.
You appear to have CocoaPods installed but it is not working.
This can happen if the version of Ruby that CocoaPods was installed with is
different from the one being used to invoke it.
This can usually be fixed by re-installing CocoaPods. For more info, see
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/14293.
To re-install CocoaPods, run:
sudo gem install cocoapods
[!] Android Studio (version 4.1)
• Android Studio at /Volumes/apps/Android Studio.app/Contents
✗ Flutter plugin not installed; this adds Flutter specific functionality.
✗ Dart plugin not installed; this adds Dart specific functionality.
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build
1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6915495)
[!] Connected device
! No devices available
! Doctor found issues in 3 categories.
Also gem list pod is giving an empty list but sudo gem list pod is giving this
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
cocoapods (1.10.0)
cocoapods-core (1.10.0)
cocoapods-deintegrate (1.0.4)
cocoapods-downloader (1.4.0)
cocoapods-plugins (1.0.0)
cocoapods-search (1.0.0)
cocoapods-trunk (1.5.0)
cocoapods-try (1.2.0)
I am first time doing this stuff, need some help, what's wrong?
EDIT: ruby -v gives this ruby 2.6.3p62 (2019-04-16 revision 67580) [universal.x86_64-darwin20]
which ruby gives this - /usr/bin/ruby

Answer 1

First try this ;
sudo gem uninstall cocoapods
sudo gem install cocoapods
If it does not works for you.
Try this :(It works for me in macos Bigsur M1)
Check permission for the mentioned directory via:
ls -l /home/raphael/flutter/
If not, while being in the folder mentioned above, try to change permission on the folder via:
chown -R YOUR_USERNAME flutter
Run the first command again to verify that the apropriate user is now shown on the folder. Then try to create the project again.

Answer 2

Try resolving issues one by one. First resolve xcode issue using
sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
sudo xcodebuild -runFirstLaunch
After this
run
sudo gem install cocoapods
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If this not works give output of following commands. Also can you tell if brew is installed?
$ruby -v
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$ which ruby
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Answer 3

I found that I had to first update gem itself:
sudo gem update --system
Then uninstall and reinstall Cocoapods:
sudo gem uninstall cocoapods
sudo gem install cocoapods
Only then would flutter doctor stop complaining that cocoapods was not installed.