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Ruby

Hi Teamtree House, I am trying to install Vagrant on Ruby on Rails

When I try and get it to work this error message comes up, how can I fix it?

james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ vagrant init A Vagrantfile has been placed in this directory. You are now ready to vagrant up your first virtual environment! Please read the comments in the Vagrantfile as well as documentation on vagrantup.com for more information on using Vagrant. james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ vagrant up Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Box 'base' could not be found. Attempting to find and install... default: Box Provider: virtualbox default: Box Version: >= 0 ==> default: Adding box 'base' (v0) for provider: virtualbox default: Downloading: base An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try again.

Couldn't open file /Users/jamesunderwood/base james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ ls l ls: l: No such file or directory james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ l ls -bash: l: command not found james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ vagrant up Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Box 'base' could not be found. Attempting to find and install... default: Box Provider: virtualbox default: Box Version: >= 0 ==> default: Adding box 'base' (v0) for provider: virtualbox default: Downloading: base An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try again.

Couldn't open file /Users/jamesunderwood/base james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ # -- mode: ruby -- james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ # vi: set ft=ruby : james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ # Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing! james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2" -bash: VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION: command not found james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config| -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION' james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ # All Vagrant configuration is done here. The most common configuration james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ # options are documented and commented below. For a complete reference, james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ # please see the online documentation at vagrantup.com. james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ config.vm.box = "treehouse-rails4" -bash: config.vm.box: command not found james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ config.vm.box_url = "http://vm.teamtreehouse.com/treehouse-rails4.box" -bash: config.vm.box_url: command not found james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ config.ssh.username = "treehouse" -bash: config.ssh.username: command not found james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 3000, host: 3000 -bash: config.vm.network: command not found james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ config.vm.synced_folder "./projects", "/home/treehouse/projects" -bash: config.vm.synced_folder: command not found james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ end -bash: end: command not found james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ vagrant up Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Box 'base' could not be found. Attempting to find and install... default: Box Provider: virtualbox default: Box Version: >= 0 ==> default: Adding box 'base' (v0) for provider: virtualbox default: Downloading: base An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try again.

Couldn't open file /Users/jamesunderwood/base james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$ vagrant up Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Box 'base' could not be found. Attempting to find and install... default: Box Provider: virtualbox default: Box Version: >= 0 ==> default: Adding box 'base' (v0) for provider: virtualbox default: Downloading: base An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try again.

Couldn't open file /Users/jamesunderwood/base james-underwoods-macbook:~ jamesunderwood$