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Install Ruby with rbenv and CocoaPods on M1 MacBook (Apple Silicon)

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 21:26:10 +0500

install Homebrew
Install Ruby with rbenv
Install CocoaPods

Doing your own Ruby installation instead of using the system one is preferred, either with Homebrew or rbenv. Apple is deprectaing the default system installation of Ruby anyway.

Homebrew, rbenv and Ruby

 1# install homebrew
 2/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
 3
 4# install ruby with rbenv
 5brew install rbenv # ruby-build is included
 6rbenv install 3.0.1
 7rbenv global 3.0.1 # set system default ruby version
 8
 9ruby -v
10# ruby 3.0.1p64 (2021-04-05 revision 0fb782ee38) [arm64-darwin20]

1rbenv install -l # list versions that can be installed
2rbenv versions # list installed ruby versions
3rbenv global 3.0.1 # set system default ruby version

Cocoapods

1gem install ffi cocoapods
2rbenv rehash # run a rehash after installing gems (or a new Ruby version) to make sure everything new is on your PATH:

sudo is not needed for Ruby versions installed with rbenv
ffi is needed here to get rid of some ffi related LoadError
rbenv rehash is important, otherwise the Podfile will keep using the old system installed Ruby

Now you can go to your iOS project and do pod repo update && pod install

CocoaPods on M1 MacBooks (Apple Silicon based chip)

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:01 +0500

CocoaPods doesn’t work out of the box on M1 Macs. Something about ffi and arch stuff. There are workarounds though.

Open Terminal / iTerm with Rosetta (Get Info > Open using Rosetta)
Install CocoaPods related commands with arch -x86_64

1# install CocoaPods
2arch -x86_64 sudo gem install cocoapods
3
4# install ffi
5arch -x86_64 sudo gem install ffi
6
7# install dependencies
8arch -x86_64 pod install

iOS, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), CoreBluetooth and Swift - for noobs

Sun, 28 Aug 2016 15:35:22 +0500

This talk by Yoav Shwartz on the Realm.io site and this post by Ryan Jones on Medium are the best starting points I have come across.

The official documentation by Apple on CoreBluetooth is in Objective-C, which sucks because Objective-C looks like gibberish to me and i want to write Swift code. You can still read the docs though, they have listed best practices to work with BLE and CoreBluetooth.