Discourse as Your First Rails App

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Is there any way to use discourse without using VM? Does it can be used with local system as normal rails app?

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Docker is not a VM, it does not suffer the same performance penalty as virtualization.

The official Docker-based install is the only supported installation method (for production use). In theory, you can also use different installation methods, but it will be entirely unsupported, is likely slower than a Docker-based install, and can break with any upgrade.

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Iā€™ve been able to develop on Discourse just fine using my local machines (mac and linux), no VM required. (Windows will be a bit trickier, so Vagrant or something similar would be the way to go there)

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Can you explain how to set this up or link to a howto?

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Hereā€™s a back-of-the-napkin approximation for mac (linux will be the similar with apt-get instead of brew):

(this assumes that youā€™re using the correct ruby version [2.3.0 at the time of this writing], probably installed with either rvm or rbenv)

brew install redis
brew install postgres
git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse.git && cd ./discourse
bundle install
rake db:setup
redis-server &
bundle exec rails s
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Thanks for your support. I successfully installed discourse in my local system and running from http://localhost:3000. But i got stuck when iā€™m trying to embed comments in other websites from my discourse. When i tried to embed comments iā€™m getting only Loading Discussion message in browser text, but if i passed topicId as parameter it is loading comments perfectly. Can some please help me to resolve this.

Thanks.

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That helped ! Will try it out

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Thanks for the guide, Iā€™ve got Discourse up and running locally in a VM.

However, unlike the blog screenshot, though, Iā€™m seeing a ā€˜blankā€™ discourse forum in set-up mode with the usual ā€™ Congratulations, you installed Discourse!ā€™ title - am I not meant to be seeing an ā€˜exampleā€™ forum with some pre-loaded threads like the screenshot?

Also, can I load in a back-up of my Production forum using command line fairly simply - any gotchaā€™s doing this?

Thanks!

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That is expected - thereā€™s no pre-seeded content in development installs. That screenshot was just an example of a site running locally, not a brand new development install.

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