Error while trying to install vagrant-aws plugin - ruby

Question

I'm trying to add the vagrant-aws plugin to my installation of Vagrant. Upon running this command:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws
I get this error message:
Bundler, the underlying system Vagrant uses to install plugins,
reported an error. The error is shown below. These errors are usually
caused by misconfigured plugin installations or transient network
issues. The error from Bundler is:
An error occurred while installing json (1.8.2), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install json -v '1.8.2'` succeeds before bundling.
Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
"c:/Program Files (x86)/Vagrant/embedded/bin/ruby.exe" extconf.rb
creating Makefile
make "DESTDIR="
generating generator-i386-mingw32.def
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `x86'
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `/c/Program\ Files\ (x86)/Vagrant/embedded/bin/ruby -e "puts 'EXPORTS', 'Init_generator'" > generator-i386-mingw32.def'
make: *** [generator-i386-mingw32.def] Error 2
Gem files will remain installed in C:/Users/Steve/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/json-1.8.2 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Users/Steve/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/json-1.8.2/ext/json/ext/generator/gem_make.out
At first I thought I would need to manually install Ruby and Gem in order to fix this, but then I realized that Vagrant's Bundler system should automatically take care of all this. I'm at a loss and would appreciate any help.

Answer 1

Ahh.. Windows and Linux build/make tools will never get along.
As you can see from the error: /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token ``x86' - The problem is with the parentheses characters in the path.
I think newer Vagrant version solved these problems by installing Vagrant in Program Data directories.

Answer 2

I feel your pain, I stayed up for awhile fighting with this issue. I had just switched over to Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca from being a long time windows user.
Vagrant version 1.7.2, pretty fresh install of Mint 17.1
Kept getting that same error when trying to install various plugins for vagrant, mainly hostsupdater but I bet this fixes all the issues as it is the same error. I read tons of threads and answers and this is what ended up working.
1: Followed this guide and installed Ruby 2.2.0
http://ryanbigg.com/2014/10/ubuntu-ruby-ruby-install-chruby-and-you
Note: Make sure you visit the sites where he links off to the README for installing ruby, his copy paste for code is messed up.
2: You were expecting more, nope!
Installing all plugins just worked perfect after that, did need to use sudo though but other than that.
Hope this saves someone a ton of time looking...