Discourse Database with Dummy Data

[merefield (Robert)]

This is an out of the box feature.

Use the dev migration rake job that’s discussed in this post to populate an instance with dummy data.

@nathank

If what you want is a test server to see what Discourse is like, though, you might want to check things out with some fake data, and if you do, you can do this:

./launcher enter app
ALLOW_DEV_POPULATE=1 bundle install
ALLOW_DEV_POPULATE=1 rake dev:populate