I’m new to Discourse and Ruby, so forgive me for asking such simple question. But I have a production website with Docker running on my DigitalOcean server and a development version with Vagrant running on my Mac. Is this the proper setup? Or should I make both environments on my server? After tweaking and developing in the development environment, what’s the best practice to deploy everything I did to the server? Please help me with this or suggest me a tutorial if possible. Thank you so much!
What kind of changes are you doing locally? If they’re only CSS/HTML changes, then a customization is enough. If you want to change some ruby code or do advanced changes to the UI, then I’d highly recommend that you build a plugin instead. Will be much easier to deploy your changes to production and also you to keep your Discourse version up to date more easily
Thanks for your quick reply. I’m doing things more complicated than just changing the look. Thus, I’m hoping that I can set up an environment on my Mac and tinker with Discourse’s code. I tried the tutorials from the forum but none of them talks about what to do after finished setting up a local environment. How can I deploy the code I changed to affect the production environment? Thanks
