ignite new failing silently when cocoapods is not installed on OSX

I was trying to follow the infinitred tutorial there https://shift.infinite.red/creating-a-trivia-app-with-ignite-bowser-part-1-1987cc6e93a1. I was kind of stuck because the ignite new IgniteTrivia --boilerplate bowser --no-detox (which run without error message and returning 0) doesn't seems to generate some important folder (app/models, app/screens etc). I'm just seeing:

in ~/dev/IgniteTrivia/IgniteTrivia
$ ll
total 712
drwxr-xr-x   20 moita  staff   640B Apr 15 20:11 ./
drwxr-xr-x    6 moita  staff   192B Apr 15 20:09 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff   114B Apr 15 20:11 .buckconfig
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff    74B Apr 15 20:11 .eslintrc.js
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff   2.1K Apr 15 20:11 .flowconfig
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff    16B Apr 15 20:11 .gitattributes
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff   813B Apr 15 20:11 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff   120B Apr 15 20:11 .prettierrc.js
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff     2B Apr 15 20:11 .watchmanconfig
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff   2.7K Apr 15 20:11 App.js
drwxr-xr-x    3 moita  staff    96B Apr 15 20:11 __tests__/
drwxr-xr-x    9 moita  staff   288B Apr 15 20:11 android/
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff    61B Apr 15 20:11 app.json
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff    77B Apr 15 20:11 babel.config.js
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff   183B Apr 15 20:11 index.js
drwxr-xr-x    8 moita  staff   256B Apr 15 20:11 ios/
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff   300B Apr 15 20:11 metro.config.js
drwxr-xr-x  651 moita  staff    20K Apr 15 20:12 node_modules/
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff   675B Apr 15 20:12 package.json
-rw-r--r--    1 moita  staff   301K Apr 15 20:12 yarn.lock

Thanks to Jamon Holmgren on your slack! We ran the new --debug command and it prompted if I wanted to install cocoapods (with homebrew or gem, but without the option of not installing it). Thus I asked with homebrew and it failed because I don't have it (it would have failed with gem as well since the process didn't have the sudo). Then the entire process failed and I got the same result as described above.

I installed cocoapods manualy, ran the new again and now it seems to be fine (I got all the screens/models/... directories in the app).

Meanwhile I still have a question, I just managed to install an old version of cocoapods, 1.8.4. Is it fine ?

Some question remaining so you can improve ignite:

Process without --debug option ends successfully with no clue it didn't.
Is it required to have cocoapods installed to run ignite ?

Ignite installed on OSX

On a fresh ignite new IgniteTrivia --boilerplate bowser --no-detox before installing cocoapods:

$ ignite doctor
System
  platform           darwin                                                  
  arch               x64                                                     
  cpu                4 cores        Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5257U CPU @ 2.70GHz 
  directory          IgniteTrivia   /Users/moita/dev/IgniteTrivia            

JavaScript
  node               12.16.2      /opt/local/bin/node 
  npm                6.14.4       /opt/local/bin/npm  
  yarn               1.22.4       /opt/local/bin/yarn 

Ignite
  ignite-cli         3.5.1        /opt/local/bin/ignite                        
  ignite src         build        /opt/local/lib/node_modules/ignite-cli/build 
  generators         {"component":"ignite-bowser","model":"ignite-bowser","navigator":"ignite-bowser","screen":"ignite-bowser"}                                                

Android
  java               1.8.0_152-release   /usr/bin/java 
  android home       -                   undefined     

iOS
  xcode              11.2.1     
  cocoapods          Not installed

infinitered / ignite

ignite new failing silently when cocoapods is not installed on OSX #1548

Ignite installed on OSX