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Jenny Swift
21,999 PointsTrouble installing Treehouse VM on Mac
Hi, I've been trying to follow along with this tutorial (Installing the Treehouse VM on Mac-http://teamtreehouse.com/library/installing-a-ruby-development-environment/installing-a-ruby-development-environment/installing-the-treehouse-vm-on-mac), and the first time things went smoothly until 05:55 in the video, where Jason says "So let's go ahead and shut down the vm," and then more text appears on his screen, but I'm not sure how he got it to appear. On my screen I didn't have the word 'treehouse' on the last line and when I typed 'cd ..' as he did, I again didn't get the word 'treehouse' on the next line, and from here I was basically lost and it didn't exit. And then I moved on to the later videos and ended up restarting my computer in order to get the rails installer working, which meant closing the terminal.
I then tried going through the steps in the video again in terminal, and things went smoothly until 05:00, where I've just typed in rails new testapp and now my screen no longer looks like his. Mine says:
conflict config/initializers/secret_token.rb Overwrite /home/treehouse/projects/testapp/config/initializers/secret_token.rb? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh]
And so I don't know what to do from here. Can anyone help me please?
3 Answers
Jenny Swift
21,999 PointsNever mind. I figured it out. I started console foundations to get a feel for using Terminal and I think that helped me have a better idea of what was going on.
David Jahns
14,165 PointsI am having this exact same issue. What ended up resolving it for you?
Jenny Swift
21,999 PointsAt 5:55 when he says 'let's shut down the VM', although he doesn't say it, I think he must press control C. This worked for me. Doing some of Console Foundations helped me have a bit more confidence working with Terminal. If control c doesn't work, let me know and perhaps I can help.
Jenny Swift
21,999 PointsJenny Swift
21,999 PointsI forgot to add that now when I go to localhost:3000 in my web browser I get an 'Unable to connect' message, whereas it worked before I restarted my computer.