How to install Discourse locally?

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Beginners Guide to Install Discourse for Development using Docker

Developing using Docker Since Discourse runs in Docker, you should be able to run Discourse directly from your source directory using a Discourse development container. Pros: No need to install any system dependencies, no configuration needed at all for setting up a development environment quickly. Cons: Will be slightly slower than the native dev environment on Ubuntu, and much slower than a native install on MacOS. Step 1: Install Docker Ubuntu curl -fsSL https://d…

and without docker (in case of interest/you find above too slow):

Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on Ubuntu for Development

This guide covers installation instructions in development environment, for a production guide see: How to install Discourse in production So you want to set up Discourse on Ubuntu to hack on and develop with? We’ll assume that you don’t have Ruby/Rails/Postgre/Redis installed on your Ubuntu system. Let’s begin! Although this guide assumes that you are using Ubuntu, but the set-up instructions will work fine for any Debian based distribution. (If you want to install Discourse for…