Hey, I’m moving a ton of content over from my old (proprietary) forum software to a new Discourse forum. I’m not a Ruby coder so I couldn’t really start with the example import scripts provided by Discourse… it’s just not a good solution for me. So I’m just calling the API to handle all the steps. …

If you know any programming languages starting with the existing import scripts is the way to go. The bulk import scripts directly modify the sql but they are still written in ruby.

Ok… I’ll look at the scripts… I’m an experienced coder in other languages, just not Ruby/RoR. … Ok I’m back from looking at the existing import scripts in github. :wink: From what I see, it looks very much like the code I’ve already written to do my importing… lots of loops to get the users, the t…

[image] pnoeric: my issue is that it seems clunky That’s why I recommended that you not use it.

[image] pfaffman: That’s why I recommended that you not use it. Heh, yes, we have established that, and we have also established that I don’t know RoR, so investing the time to rewrite one of the existing scripts is not a good solution for me either. If you have any other recommendations that…

Hi Eric, The core migration scripts are a great starting place. A month ago I had also never programmed in Ruby before as well. In fact, a few days ago I wrote a custom PHP script to help with migration (a long decade of PHP years behind me) but decided to rewrite in Ruby and “its a piece of cake…

Thanks – yeah, learning RoR is on the list! :wink:

Comment importer en masse des posts si les scripts Ruby d'exemple ne peuvent pas être utilisés ?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) Avril 3, 2020, 12:01 4

C’est pourquoi je vous ai recommandé de ne pas l’utiliser.

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