# Can install Discourse with railsinstaller on windows?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-install-discourse-with-railsinstaller-on-windows/26299
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**Created:** [13.Март.2015 16:32:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-install-discourse-with-railsinstaller-on-windows/26299 "2015-03-13T16:32:58Z")
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### Author: ![Qasem\_h](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/qasem_h/32/155935_2.png) [@Qasem\_h](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Qasem_h)
#### Post date: [13.Март.2015 16:32:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-install-discourse-with-railsinstaller-on-windows/26299/1 "2015-03-13T16:32:59Z")

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Hi  
can i install discourse in windows whit railsinstaller ?

> **[RailsInstaller — Install Ruby on Rails on Windows & Mac](https://hotframeworks.com/railsinstaller-org/)**
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> What RailsInstaller was, how to install Ruby on Rails today, and the original archived downloads.

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### Author: ![hunterboerner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hunterboerner/32/114646_2.png) [@hunterboerner](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hunterboerner)
#### Post date: [13.Март.2015 17:22:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-install-discourse-with-railsinstaller-on-windows/26299/2 "2015-03-13T17:22:55Z")

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Docker install is the only supported way to install Discourse. That must be done on Linux since it requires Linux Containers (LXC).

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [13.Март.2015 21:31:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-install-discourse-with-railsinstaller-on-windows/26299/3 "2015-03-13T21:31:35Z")

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The main technical reason that Discourse can’t be run on Windows is that it uses gem native extensions, such as nokogiri (which takes the longest to compile 😠)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [13.Март.2015 22:10:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-install-discourse-with-railsinstaller-on-windows/26299/4 "2015-03-13T22:10:45Z")

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Rails basically does not work on Windows, you will run into many problems. See the other topics here about Windows. Use a VM and Linux.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [13.Март.2015 22:10:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-install-discourse-with-railsinstaller-on-windows/26299/5 "2015-03-13T22:10:48Z")

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