# Discourse as Your First Rails App

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-your-first-rails-app/5751>\
**Category:** Blog\
**Created:** [April 9, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-your-first-rails-app/5751 "2013-04-09T23:08:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-your-first-rails-app/5751/22 "2013-04-11T22:00:41Z")

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Here is a quick and dirty translation of Getting Started for Debian/Ubuntu users if you want to toss it in a script or something:

1. `sudo apt-get install git virtualbox nfs-common nfs-kernel-server`
2. `wget http://files.vagrantup.com/packages/64e360814c3ad960d810456add977fd4c7d47ce6/vagrant_x86_64.deb`
3. `sudo dpkg -i vagrant_x86_64.deb`
4. Open a terminal
5. Clone the project: `git clone git@github.com:discourse/discourse.git`
6. Enter the project directory: `cd discourse`

Then continue on with the rest of the instructions … (I’m getting an error with the NFS client thing, but that should work, I’m investigating that and will update this when I find the cause.)

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