Hi, I am attempting to setup a development enviroment for Discourse. When running bundle install based on the instructions at Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on macOS for Development I get an error. An error occurred while installing cppjieba_rb (0.3.0), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sur…

Can you try the docker based dev env, it is way simpler

I just checked my system and realized some dependencies and the ruby version manager thing needed to be configured . That might be while bundler is installing. That said Docker does sound simpler, I intend to submit pull requests to Discourse, is the Docker environment still right for me? If so cou…

Yes it is perfect for that, search for docker development environment, there is a howto

The only thing I could find was Setting up Docker in Virtualbox for 'production' testing which looks terribly outdated considering it’s use of Ubuntu 13. Could you link me to exactly the thread you’re talking about?

Sam’s talking about this one: Beginners Guide to Install Discourse for Development using Docker

Thanks, and turns out - since I tried to install while on system Ruby rather than the correct version, future bundle installs were trying to use system rather than correct bundler. Deleting discourse and recloning solved the issue.

[26%20PM] And I can now start making changes and creating new bugs :smiley:

Im getting the same error. I am running ubuntu on vagrant. Any know how to get passed this? @sam

also having this issue. kinda sad how difficult it is to get a local Discourse environment for testing out this software.

Can't set up dev environment due to cppjieba_rb failing to install

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Falco (Falco) 17 april 2019 om 18:51 10

Vagrant is not a supported dev environment, please follow one of the supported Developer Environment guides:

Docker (Ubuntu & macOS)
Ubuntu (Linux)
macOS
Windows 10

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