# Adding bulk categories

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulk-categories/161823
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 23, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulk-categories/161823 "2020-08-23T13:52:31Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2020, 10:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-bulk-categories/161823/7 "2020-08-26T10:15:37Z")

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You’d do this at the console. You already have rails. Something like this.

```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app 
rails c

```

[Administrative Bulk Operations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/administrative-bulk-operations/118349) might offer some clues.

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