Hi everyone. Just got Discourse set up and now I am attempting to import my content from my XenForo Database Follow this guide, I get to Step 11 - Migrate a XenForo forum to Discourse You are set to go now, run the importer: bundle exec script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb and I get the following: root@titan-app:/var/www/discourse > RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec ruby script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb /var/www/discourse/config/application.rb:2:in `require': cannot load such file -- rails/all (LoadError) from /var/www/discourse/config/application.rb:2:in ` ' from /var/www/discourse/config/environment.rb:2:in `require' from /var/www/discourse/config/environment.rb:2:in ` ' from /var/www/discourse/script/import_scripts/base.rb:14:in `require_relative' from /var/www/discourse/script/import_scripts/base.rb:14:in ` ' from script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb:3:in `require' from script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb:3:in ` ' It looks to be the same error as this thread: Error Trying to Start Import Process - Xenforo to Discourse but it devolves into nothing. Can anyone shed some light as to what I might be doing wrong or is there any issue with the import script for XF? Kind regards,

Well, after all that… I rebuilt the app, went in and followed all the instructions to a T…It magically worked (Reading is hard some days :stuck_out_tongue: ) RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec ruby script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb Step 10 to the XF tutorial needs to be updated to reflect with the above line! Anyway, the final result was: updating featured topic users 966 / 966 (100.0%) updating featured topics in categories 53 / 53 (100.0%) updating user topic reply counts 241 / 241 (100.0%) resetting topic counters 966 / 966 (100.0%) Done (00h 04min 55sec) Thanks to everyone for the assistance :slight_smile:

That sounds like you don’t have all the gems installed; what does bundle show railties say?

You’re not using the discourse account. Run cat `which rails` and copy the sudo command line out of that file.

Hey guys, thanks for getting back to me on this issue! [image] mpalmer: That sounds like you don’t have all the gems installed; what does bundle show railties say? root@titan-app:/var/www/discourse> bundle show railties Could not find gem 'railties'. I will admit, I installed the railties gem and then re-ran the above command and got the same result. [image] riking: You’re not using the discourse account. Run cat which rails and copy the sudo command line out of that file. root@titan-app:/var/www/discourse> cat `which rails` #!/usr/local/bin/ruby # # This file was generated by RubyGems. # # The application 'railties' is installed as part of a gem, and # this file is here to facilitate running it. # require 'rubygems' version = ">= 0.a" if ARGV.first str = ARGV.first str = str.dup.force_encoding("BINARY") if str.respond_to? :force_encoding if str =~ /\A_(.*)_\z/ and Gem::Version.correct?($1) then version = $1 ARGV.shift end end gem 'railties', version load Gem.bin_path('railties', 'rails', version) (Note, I got the same result under the ‘discourse’ user) Maybe I botched something?

Well, that’s rather strange. What did the bundle install --no-deployment step print when you ran it?

Hi Matt, this is what I got. Should I be running this as the root user within the container or the discourse user? root@titan-app:/var/www/discourse# bundle install --no-deployment Don't run Bundler as root. Bundler can ask for sudo if it is needed, and installing your bundle as root will break this application for all non-root users on this machine. Using mysql2 0.4.4 Using bundler 1.13.0 Bundle complete! 1 Gemfile dependency, 2 gems now installed. Gems in the group development were not installed. Use `bundle show [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed. root@titan-app:/var/www/discourse# bundle show railties Could not find gem 'railties'. Kind regards,

I think I may be onto something here. In Step 8 of this tutorial: Migrate a XenForo forum to Discourse , it says to run echo "gem 'mysql2'" >Gemfile I looked in the Gemfile only to see this in the file: gem 'mysql2' So I went to GitHub and got the latest Gemfile and I added the gem 'mysql2' to the file. Ran bundle install --no-deployment and it installed a BUNCH of stuff (Too many to copy and paste here) (Side note: Do not use tmux and go into the container..it didn’t work at all :stuck_out_tongue: ) But it ended with this: Bundle complete! 100 Gemfile dependencies, 180 gems now installed. Gems in the group development were not installed. Use `bundle show [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed. Post-install message from certified: IMPORTANT: Remember to use the included executable `certifed-update` regularly to keep your certificate bundle up to date. root@titan-app:/var/www/discourse# bundle show railties /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-4.2.7.1 That looks good in my eyes. So it looks like the Step 8 in that tutorial above is incorrect. But when all seems good in the world, I get this: root@titan-app:/var/www/discourse# bundle exec script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb bundler: not executable: script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb Do I need to chmod +x or something? (I don’t have a lot of experience in Ruby to know lol) Thanks for all the help so far! EDIT: Chmod X’d the xenforo.rb and now I’m getting this: root@titan-app:/var/www/discourse# bundle exec script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb: 1: script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb: require: not found script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb: 3: script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

[image] Padraig: Should I be running this as the root user within the container or the discourse user? As discourse. The console output you pasted says it nice and clearly, too: Don't run Bundler as root. [image] Padraig: it says to run echo "gem 'mysql2'" >Gemfile Hmm, yeah, that’s never going to end well. Fixed the howto. [image] Padraig: bundler: not executable: script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb Unfortunately, chmod +x won’t work because the file doesn’t have a “shebang” (#!/usr/bin/ruby or similar) to tell the system what language it’s in. I’ve just changed the howto to run ruby explicitly; if you do that, it’ll work better (or at least break differently).

Massive thank you for the help @mpalmer. I really appreciate it! discourse@titan-app:/var/www/discourse$ bundle exec ruby script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb DEPRECATION WARNING: Sprockets method `register_engine` is deprecated. Please register a mime type using `register_mime_type` then use `register_compressor` or `register_transformer`. https://github.com/rails/sprockets/blob/master/guides/extending_sprockets.md#supporting-all-versions-of-sprockets-in-processors (called from at /var/www/discourse/lib/es6_module_transpiler/sprockets.rb:3) /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:1392:in `initialize': No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/ember-data-source-2.3.0.beta.5/dist/ember-data.js (Errno::ENOENT) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:1392:in `open' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:1392:in `copy_file' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:486:in `copy_file' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:403:in `block in cp' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:1571:in `block in fu_each_src_dest' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:1587:in `fu_each_src_dest0' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:1569:in `fu_each_src_dest' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:402:in `cp' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/ember-rails-0.18.5/lib/ember_rails.rb:68:in `block in ' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-4.2.7.1/lib/rails/initializable.rb:30:in `instance_exec' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-4.2.7.1/lib/rails/initializable.rb:30:in `run' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-4.2.7.1/lib/rails/initializable.rb:55:in `block in run_initializers' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/tsort.rb:228:in `block in tsort_each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/tsort.rb:350:in `block (2 levels) in each_strongly_connected_component' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/tsort.rb:431:in `each_strongly_connected_component_from' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/tsort.rb:349:in `block in each_strongly_connected_component' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/tsort.rb:347:in `each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/tsort.rb:347:in `call' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/tsort.rb:347:in `each_strongly_connected_component' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/tsort.rb:226:in `tsort_each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/tsort.rb:205:in `tsort_each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-4.2.7.1/lib/rails/initializable.rb:54:in `run_initializers' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-4.2.7.1/lib/rails/application.rb:352:in `initialize!' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-4.2.7.1/lib/rails/railtie.rb:194:in `public_send' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-4.2.7.1/lib/rails/railtie.rb:194:in `method_missing' from /var/www/discourse/config/environment.rb:5:in ` ' from /var/www/discourse/script/import_scripts/base.rb:14:in `require_relative' from /var/www/discourse/script/import_scripts/base.rb:14:in ` ' from script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb:3:in `require' from script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb:3:in ` ' It looks like now that I am missing gems or something needs to be defined.. Kind regards,

I got nothing this time… sprockets is well out of my area of knowledge. Sorry.

I think that on this overwrite Gemfile thing, you’ve got some incompatible bundle. I would try a rebuild to get things back to a working state. Backup all manual changes inside the container before, it’s gonna be wiped.

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mpalmer (Matt Palmer) September 14, 2016, 1:44am 16

OK. Howto topic updated again.

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