I cleared my caches today and was rebuilding…but I seem to have broken something in my environment. When I build from Xcode with Cocoapods doing the Kotlin build, it only find the system Ruby/Gems and not the one I have installed from Homebrew. Thus it doesn’t find my Cocoapods install. Any insights of where to update the GEM_HOME env variable?

Hi! The issue is likely not the `GEM_HOME`; rather, the

PATH

environment variable is different when you are running from Xcode and therefore a different

pod

executable is picked up. One workaround that you could try is to: • Uninstall the CocoaPods installed by system Ruby

sudo /usr/bin/gem uninstall cocoapods

• Create a symbolic link from Homebrew installation to

/usr/local/bin

ln -s "$(brew --prefix)/bin/pod" /usr/local/bin

• Make sure

which -a pod

shows

/usr/local/bin/pod

Since

/usr/local/bin

is in the default

PATH

used by Xcode, the

pod

executable should be picked up from the Homebrew installation via the symbolic link.

Thanks for responding! From what I understand, the issue is that Gems puts a script in

/usr/local/bin

called

pod

, which gets picked up by pretty much any shell. It’s a Ruby script that invokes the rubygems module and looks for the Gem. Since it’s not installed in the system version (I don’t want to use the System version of Ruby), it doesn’t find it. Unfortunately, the symbolic link idea won’t work and I’d probably just have to install cocoapods as a gem for the system version of Ruby as a workaround.

I am not sure this helps in your specific case, but just for the reference I want to mention that Homebrew CocoaPods installation sets up it's own Ruby and GEM_HOME. This can be seen in:

cat "$(brew --prefix)/bin/pod"

Yeah, I don’t think that helps fix the issue, but points that environments can be set up in different ways.