# How to edit an import script on the production server?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-an-import-script-on-the-production-server/282505
**Category:** Migration
**Tags:** vanilla
**Created:** [October 17, 2023, 9:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-an-import-script-on-the-production-server/282505 "2023-10-17T09:45:17Z")
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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2023, 12:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-an-import-script-on-the-production-server/282505/11 "2023-10-17T12:53:46Z")

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I’d like to quote this:

> [@What I should do for migration from Cusdis to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-i-should-do-for-migration-from-cusdis-to-discourse/244293/2):
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> I wrote several [importers] before really learning Ruby

🙂

I also modified importers for my migrations, and I don’t know Ruby as well.

It’s not a mandatory skill at all.

Regarding how to edit the import scripts… I have edited some directly into the container when doing at least one of my migrations. That’s not a proper way to do it, so I wouldn’t recommend it, but if you’re careful not to lose your changes, that can do the trick.

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