diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 19dbfdd5..33375c5d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 /builds
 /testbeds
 .DS_Store
+/prefixes
 
 #TODO commit after v1
 /deno.lock
diff --git a/projects/asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor b/projects/asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor
index 8ef4ca1f..debb89f4 100755
--- a/projects/asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor
+++ b/projects/asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-export GEM_HOME="$(cd $(dirname $0)/.. && pwd)"
+export GEM_HOME="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"/.. && pwd)"
 export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME"
 export PATH="$GEM_HOME/gems/bin:$PATH"
 exec "$GEM_HOME"/gems/bin/asciidoctor "$@"
diff --git a/projects/cocoapods.org/package.yml b/projects/cocoapods.org/package.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ae412e93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/cocoapods.org/package.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+distributable:
+  url: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/archive/{{version}}.tar.gz
+  strip-components: 1
+
+versions:
+  github: CocoaPods/CocoaPods
+
+dependencies:
+  ruby-lang.org: ^3
+  sourceware.org/libffi: ^3
+  rubygems.org: ^3
+  git-scm.org: ^2
+
+build:
+  dependencies:
+    tea.xyz/gx/cc: c99
+    tea.xyz/gx/make: '*'
+  env:
+    GEM_HOME: ${{prefix}}
+    GEM_PATH: ${{prefix}}
+
+    # FIXME ruby’s mkmf needs patching to check CPATH
+    CFLAGS: -I{{deps.sourceware.org/libffi.prefix}}/include
+  script:
+    - gem build cocoapods.gemspec
+    - gem install cocoapods-{{version}}.gem
+
+    - run: |
+        mv {{prefix}}/bin/* .
+        cp $SRCROOT/props/proxy {{prefix}}/bin/pod
+      working-directory:
+        ${{prefix}}/gems/bin
+
+provides:
+  - bin/pod
+
+test:
+  env:
+    # some of our test containers are raw and thus run as root
+    COCOAPODS_ALLOW_ROOT: 1
+  script:
+    pod --version
diff --git a/projects/cocoapods.org/proxy b/projects/cocoapods.org/proxy
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..a9f98f5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/cocoapods.org/proxy
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+export GEM_HOME="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"/.. && pwd)"
+export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME"
+export PATH="$GEM_HOME/gems/bin:$PATH"
+exec "$GEM_HOME"/gems/bin/pod "$@"
diff --git a/projects/fastlane.tools/fastlane b/projects/fastlane.tools/fastlane
index 8b9b55bc..955a9864 100755
--- a/projects/fastlane.tools/fastlane
+++ b/projects/fastlane.tools/fastlane
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-export GEM_HOME="$(cd $(dirname $0)/.. && pwd)"
+export GEM_HOME="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"/.. && pwd)"
 export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME"
 export PATH="$GEM_HOME/gems/bin:$PATH"
 exec "$GEM_HOME"/gems/bin/fastlane "$@"
diff --git a/projects/rtomayko.github.io/ronn/ronn b/projects/rtomayko.github.io/ronn/ronn
index e7231856..dfe3ef79 100755
--- a/projects/rtomayko.github.io/ronn/ronn
+++ b/projects/rtomayko.github.io/ronn/ronn
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-export GEM_HOME="$(cd $(dirname $0)/.. && pwd)"
+export GEM_HOME="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"/.. && pwd)"
 export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME"
 export PATH="$GEM_HOME/gems/bin:$PATH"
 exec "$GEM_HOME"/gems/bin/ronn "$@"
diff --git a/projects/rubygems.org/proxy b/projects/rubygems.org/proxy
index 52b4e618..bbf36f9d 100755
--- a/projects/rubygems.org/proxy
+++ b/projects/rubygems.org/proxy
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-d="$(cd "$(dirname $0)"/.. && pwd)"
+d="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"/.. && pwd)"
 export RUBYLIB="$d/lib"
-$d/shim/$(basename $0) "$@"
+$d/shim/$(basename "$0") "$@"