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Updating cocoapods to latest version doesn't do anything

I'm currently using cocoapods 0.26.2 (output from pod --version). I want to update it to 0.29.0.

I ran sudo gem update which didn't appear to do anything with the cocoapods gem. So, following suggestions on cocoapods.org I tried:

sudo gem uninstall cocoapods
sudo gem install cocoapods

That did appear to install cocoapods 0.29.0. However, when I run pod --version it still tells me I'm on 0.26.2.

$ which pod
/usr/bin/pod

I tried renaming /usr/bin/pod to something else then trying the uninstall / reinstall again, but it doesn't put a pod binary in /usr/bin. It DOES however put a pod binary in /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p247/bin. Do I really need to add that odd and version hard coded path to my $PATH?? Why did cocoapods previously install into /usr/bin?

My gem environment:

RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 2.1.9
  - RUBY VERSION: 2.0.0 (2013-06-27 patchlevel 247) [x86_64-darwin12.5.0]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p247/bin/ruby
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p247/bin
  - SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: /Users/michael/.gem/specs
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86_64-darwin-12
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0
     - /Users/michael/.gem/ruby/2.0.0
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - https://rubygems.org/
  - SHELL PATH:
     - /usr/local/bin
     - /usr/local/sbin
     - /usr/bin
     - /bin
     - /usr/sbin
     - /sbin
     - /usr/local/bin
     - /opt/X11/bin

I'm running OS X 10.9.1.

Solution

  • Ok, this answer about ruby and homebrew solved the problem. Had to add /usr/local/opt/ruby/bin to my $PATH. Not sure how I ever had a version of the pod binary in /usr/bin, it's possible I used the OS X provided version of ruby to install the earlier version of cocoapods, not the version installed by homebrew.