cocoapods not installing

In my case nothing helped, then I:

1. sudo gem uninstall cocoapods
2. cd /Users/nikkov/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.1/lib/ruby; In Finder I searched for cocoapods and removed everything.
3. brew install cocoapods
4. brew link --overwrite cocoapods (if needed)

Uninstall the existing cocoapods, if any, by following command:

gem list --local | grep cocoapods | awk '{print $1}' | xargs sudo gem uninstall

Then install it to /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin using following command:

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin cocoapods

For further query, check this link to uninstall and this link to install cocoapods.

If you install cocoapod using brew like me

1. Reinstall cocoapods:

   brew reinstall cocoapods
   

If you see this error message after you reinstall cocoapods by brew reinstall go to step 2.

>
Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
Could not symlink bin/pod
Target /usr/local/bin/pod
already exists. You may want to remove it:
  rm '/usr/local/bin/pod'

To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
  brew link --overwrite cocoapods

To list all files that would be deleted:
  brew link --overwrite --dry-run cocoapods

Possible conflicting files are:
/usr/local/bin/pod
/usr/local/bin/xcodeproj

2. To solve conflicting files:

   brew link --overwrite cocoapods
   

   Linking /usr/local/Cellar/cocoapods/1.3.1... 2 symlinks created

Using following commands, it worked for me.

1. sudo gem uninstall cocoapods
2. sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin cocoapods
3. cocoapods pod install

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If you encounter this error on step 2:

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::CommandLineError) Please specify at least one gem name (e.g. gem build GEMNAME)

Then try this as step 2 instead (step 3 is not needed):

gem install -n /usr/local/bin cocoapods