It’s been a PITA to get ruby installed on an M1 Mac which is used to install CocoaPods which many projects still use.  I bothered to type up how to get CocoaPods installed so that others can be excluded from my pain.

Sorry if the formatting is a little wonky.

Alex Zavatone  - 02/16/2023, 02/17/2023 - V002

Process is as follows

1. Install Rosetta.

2. Install Homebrew.

3. Issue two commands in the Terminal

4. Install Cocoapods, bypassing a Ruby build.

5. Nav to your Xcode project root and issue a pod install.

Open the Terminal.

Enter these commands.

Note: remember to read the output of each operation.  You will need to enter two commands after second step.  The output will tell you what to do.