I'm not using the VM from. can i proceed with this course smoothly?

I'm not using the VM from Treehouse. can i proceed with this course smoothly? im not familiar with virtual machines. i did my downloads and follow the steps of running vm from this tutorial. after vagrant ssh, mine shows vagrant@homestead$.

i get errors. this is my terminal:

vagrant@homestead:~$ rails new projects exist
identical README.rdoc identical Rakefile identical config.ru identical .gitignore identical Gemfile exist app identical app/assets/images/rails.png identical app/assets/javascripts/application.js identical app/assets/stylesheets/application.css identical app/controllers/application_controller.rb identical app/helpers/application_helper.rb identical app/views/layouts/application.html.erb identical app/mailers/.gitkeep identical app/models/.gitkeep exist config identical config/routes.rb identical config/application.rb identical config/environment.rb exist config/environments identical config/environments/development.rb identical config/environments/production.rb identical config/environments/test.rb exist config/initializers identical config/initializers/backtrace_silencers.rb identical config/initializers/inflections.rb identical config/initializers/mime_types.rb conflict config/initializers/secret_token.rb Overwrite /home/vagrant/projects/config/initializers/secret_token.rb? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] force config/initializers/secret_token.rb identical config/initializers/session_store.rb identical config/initializers/wrap_parameters.rb exist config/locales identical config/locales/en.yml identical config/boot.rb identical config/database.yml exist db identical db/seeds.rb exist doc identical doc/README_FOR_APP exist lib exist lib/tasks identical lib/tasks/.gitkeep exist lib/assets identical lib/assets/.gitkeep exist log identical log/.gitkeep exist public identical public/404.html identical public/422.html identical public/500.html identical public/favicon.ico identical public/index.html identical public/robots.txt exist script identical script/rails exist test/fixtures identical test/fixtures/.gitkeep exist test/functional identical test/functional/.gitkeep exist test/integration identical test/integration/.gitkeep exist test/unit identical test/unit/.gitkeep identical test/performance/browsing_test.rb identical test/test_helper.rb exist tmp/cache exist tmp/cache/assets exist vendor/assets/javascripts identical vendor/assets/javascripts/.gitkeep exist vendor/assets/stylesheets identical vendor/assets/stylesheets/.gitkeep exist vendor/plugins identical vendor/plugins/.gitkeep run bundle install --local Resolving dependencies... Could not find gem 'jquery-rails (>= 0) ruby' in the gems available on this machine. vagrant@homestead:~$ bundle install Bundler::GemfileNotFound vagrant@homestead:~$ gem install jquery-rails Fetching: i18n-0.7.0.gem (100%) ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write permissions into the /var/lib/gems/1.9.1 directory. vagrant@homestead:~$

what should i do to make the projects file?