# Guide to Setting Up Discourse Development Environment - Windows 11

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/guide-to-setting-up-discourse-development-environment-windows-11/282227
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** dev-install
**Created:** [October 14, 2023, 10:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guide-to-setting-up-discourse-development-environment-windows-11/282227 "2023-10-14T10:38:25Z")
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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2026, 12:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guide-to-setting-up-discourse-development-environment-windows-11/282227/19 "2026-03-08T12:38:03Z")

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Hmm… that seems pretty common nowadays:

> [@Build fails due to ruby version mismatch](https://meta.discourse.org/t/build-fails-due-to-ruby-version-mismatch/396317):
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> After some days of using ./launcher bootstrap web\_only && ./launcher destroy web\_only && ./launcher start web\_only without issue I ran into issues after trying to use the rails console to set SiteSetting.can\_permanently\_delete = true using ./launcher enter web\_only then rails c Question: Is the rails console accessed differently in separate container mode? After failing to get a successful rebuild and bootstrap I rolled the server back a couple of days prior to implementing AI stuff. No joy…

> [@\[Solved\] Discourse crashed during update](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-discourse-crashed-during-update/397520):
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> I don’t undestand what’s happend and what to do. My Discourse crashed when I did the last update. Any help would be very appreciated Waiting for Unicorn to reload............... Stopping 1 Unicorn worker(s), to free up memory $ cd /var/www/discourse && git fetch --tags --prune-tags --prune --force $ cd /var/www/discourse && git reset --hard HEAD is now at 44bf7b363ac I18N: Update translations (#37404) $ cd /var/www/discourse && git -c advice.detachedHead=false checkout beta Previous HEAD posi…

> [@Update problem, do I press the big scary red button?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-problem-do-i-press-the-big-scary-red-button/396452/3):
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> this doesn’t sound very promising: Your Ruby version is 3.3.8, but your Gemfile specified ~\> 3.4 Docker Manager: FAILED TO UPGRADE I tried ask.discourse after posting and it suggests doing a full rebuild: sudo git pull sudo ./launcher rebuild app yay or nay?

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