Solving Failed to install CocoaPods dependencies for iOS project

This error ocurrs on macOs and M1 when you try to compile a project on React Native and basically you get the next error:

Error installing on

With that error is impossible continue and is hilarous because it appears for example when you 1st create your app on React Native

npx react-native init your project

So we solve easily and fast with this article, don’t worry about it.

Open another terminal and put it the next:

sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi

This will take a loooong time and you see the screen when is downloading the dependencies as this:

When this process is done you need enter to ios folder and do the normal install with:

cd ios && pod install

You can go back to the folder out ios and run the project

npm react-native run-ios

And obtain no errors:

Done. We ended and now is working.