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Development Tools Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing the Treehouse VM on Mac

Noam Segal
Noam Segal
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Posted by Noam Segal
Noam Segal
4,545 Points

Can't install Ruby VM on Ubuntu 15.04

Hello everyone!

I hope you can assist me with the following.. Like quite a few people/developers I know, I run Ubuntu (15.04) on my laptop. I don't really have access to another machine/OS, and I'd rather use a Linux based machine anyway.

However, Treehouse doesn't seem to do much to support Linux users, and based on the Forums and other resources on your website it seems Ubuntu users like me basically need to follow "Mac" instructions whenever relevant and make the necessary adjustments.

I'm trying to complete the "Rails Development" track, but I'm stuck on the "Installing a Ruby Development Environment" stage because of a problem I'm encountering. I had no trouble installing Virtualbox, its extensions and Vagrant. I also successfully downloaded the Treehouse VM zip file (though the instructions on the video are incorrect/outdated).

But.. (and this is where I get to the precise problem), when I run "vagrant up" I get a "default: Warning: Connection timeout. Retrying..." message, and it never connects.

I hope you can help, and I also hope you can increase support for Linux users like myself.

Thanks in advance, Noam.

p.s. side note - when I tried running a local rails server the 3000 port was taken by a process related to Virtual Box. Solved that, but I wonder if there's a way to prevent that from happening?

1 Answer

Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hi Noam Segal! Does it say anything besides "Connection Timeout"? What happens if you restart your computer and try again? Can you try putting the following in your Vagrantfile and paste a screenshot of any errors:

config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
  vb.gui = true
end

If you can't get that working, I recommend following this workshop for an ubuntu specific installation.

Noam Segal
Noam Segal
4,545 Points
Noam Segal
Noam Segal
4,545 Points

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the quick response! To answer your questions:

  1. No, it did not say anything else.
  2. Nothing, restarting didn't help.
  3. Sure thing, changed the project Vagrantfile and the results can be seen here:

Treehouse issue

Still getting the same issue, but perhaps now you have more info to go on.

As for the workshop, I didn't have any trouble installing ROR locally, I'm good on that front. Just wanted to get the VM to work, figured we'd be using it for the rest of the track and perhaps other workshops/courses. Not to mention – I don't like leaving a mystery unsolved..

Thanks again, Noam