Hello, I was Installing the Discourse Dependencies and packages to my system, but I didn’t know that this will require about 7gigs of my hdd. I’m not sure if the installation is successful because in the process I was getting messages about that my computer is running out of space. My computer has…

My recommendation would be to use our docker dev based setup from here onwards. Install docker for mac and then follow: discourse/bin/docker at main · discourse/discourse main/bin/docker A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. - discourse/discourse …

Hi Edgar, have you had any luck here? Is anything blocking you?

Hi Sam, yeah my computer is blocking me to continue, I’m running Yosemite 10.10.5 and Docker doesn’t support that version anymore. I will make the upgrade of my OS later today and I will let you know if I have any problems. Thank you!

Hello, I’m having problems to install the Bootstrap Discourse, none of the gems (source ~/.bashrc and bundle install) seems to work, what I’m doing wrong? Attached screenshot of where I’m stuck, thank you! [09 PM]

Is this what you did? cd ~/discourse ./bin/docker/boot_dev --init # wait while: # - dependencies are installed, # - the database is migrated, and # - an admin user is created (you'll need to interact with this) ./bin/docker/rails s

Hi Jay, I’m not using Docker to install Discourse for Development, I’m using Terminal and I’m not really sure about what you just mentioned. I’m following the steps and when installing the Bootstrap Discourse doesn’t look that is doing anything, please see screenshot. Thank you [04 PM]

I strongly recommend docker, cause it becomes as simple as running a single command Installing docker on Mac is super easy

As @sam said, if you just type the commands that I showed you above, you’ll be all set. Also, do you see where you typed “cd discourge” and not “cd discourse” and you didn’t notice that you typed it wrong and just kept going? If you are not paying enough attention to notice that, or don’t understan…

@pfaffman he needs a dev setup as a designer so he can contribute css changes to core, it is an edge case but not a huge one imo

Seems like a great use for Docker development to me!

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