Hung up on Step 9 of rails installation

[Alex Coville]

Hello everyone.  Forgive me if this is a repeat; I've looked through old posts and I didn't recognize my exact problem in any of them.  I've attached a picture of my code; I'm trying to connect to github and it is sending me the 'fatal: remote origin already exists' error in response.  Any help would be much appreciated.

best,

Alex

[Alex Chaffee]

Ignore the word "fatal" and try to figure out what it's trying to tell you. Computers are like autistic children -- smart and loving and well-meaning but very bad at expressing themselves.

In this case it's just saying that the remote named "origin" already exists, so it can't add it again. A few lines back it told you that the repo already existed, so I bet you've done this before. Do a "git remote -v" to confirm it's got the right URL and all should be well. 

 - A

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[Alex Coville]

Hey Alex,

Thanks for the response; that appeared to solve that question just fine but then led to a new one, or a pre existing one that I just hadn't noticed.  Obviously, I'm new to this (I don't think that "first commit" was particularly necessary) but bear with me.  As you can see below, its routing through the SSH which is fine and it appears to be going to my github repository, but it still claims that it can't be found.  Thoughts?

Merry Christmas from India,

Alex

[Alex Chaffee]

Visit your repo on github.com. Select "SSH" near the top. I bet the URL is different. 

Trust the error. Listen to your glossolalic friend. Lick the screen and taste the code. 


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