Hi, You might see if Rbenv would work for you in this case. https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv
I googled and there are folks who’ve gotten cocoapods working with rbenv installed Ruby versions. Jose Sent from my iPad > On Sep 21, 2021, at 9:49 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I wish to download from the Web a package called CocoaPods, however it needs > a developers’ package of Ruby to build it. > > I am using MacOS Catalina 10.15.7. Apple provides Ruby in this MacOSversion, > but will not allow it to be used for building non-Apple apps. They say they > are phasing out the use of Ruby in MacOS and Apple Mac apps. > > Googling around about this problem, all the solutions I have found recommend > getting a "ruby-dev" package from Homebrew, but MacPorts, which I use a lot, > recommends against mixing MacPorts and Homebrew. > > Apple’s version of Ruby is ruby 2.6.3p62 (2019-04-16 revision 67580). > > MacPorts has a package ruby @1.8.7-p374_12 (lang, ruby), but also packages > ruby26 @2.6.8_1 (lang, ruby), ruby27 @2.7.4_1 (lang, ruby), etc. Are all of > these development versions, or just runtime versions? If MacPorts has a > development version of Ruby, which would be the best version to use to build > CocoaPods? > > Failing that, would it be safe to install Homebrew and its ruby-dev, just for > building CocoaPods? > > I have no intention of learning Ruby for my own development use at this stage. > > Hoping someone can point me in the right direction, > Thanks in advance, > Ian Wadham.
