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

Posted by kabir k
kabir k
Courses Plus Student 18,036 Points

Followed the `Installing the Treehouse VM on Mac` video to 05:14 but can't connect to the site via http://localhost:3000

I have followed the Installing the Treehouse VM on Mac video up to 05:14 but can't connect to the Ruby on Rails welcome page via http://localhost:3000

I already did this course on a different computer (which I have no access to anymore) So I'm now doing this on another Mac. I believe I had the treehouse folder on a hard drive and I've followed the video up to this point where I encountered the above problem.

The following is the command I typed in the Terminal before visiting http://localhost:3000

treehouse:~/projects/testapp $ bin/rails server

Anyone know why I can't connect to the Ruby on Rails welcome page via http://localhost:3000 ?

3 Answers

Chris Ward
Chris Ward
12,129 Points
Chris Ward
Chris Ward
12,129 Points

Do you have any firewall software?

kabir k
kabir k
Courses Plus Student 18,036 Points

Hi Chris,

I don't know. How do I check for that?

Chris Ward
Chris Ward
12,129 Points
Chris Ward
Chris Ward
12,129 Points

Are you running security software that can block network connections? What is your operating system? Reply with your OS and a list of programs you are running then we can see if any of them are security software.

kabir k
kabir k
Courses Plus Student 18,036 Points

No, I don't think so. I haven't downloaded any security software on my Mac. My operating system is OS X 10.11

Where do I find the list of programs I am running?

Lydia Montagnese
Lydia Montagnese
11,271 Points
Lydia Montagnese
Lydia Montagnese
11,271 Points

Have you found a solution to this problem? I'm having the same issue. When I did vagrant up, it told me to change the Vagrantfile guest to '1234'. I did that and now I can't connect to localhost:3000 when I was able to before.