Hi Tarek - thanks for sharing this howto. I really appreciate it. I’ve tried following your instructions and noticed there are a few interim steps that are required. These become obvious as you move along but I thought I’d share them for the benefit of those who follow (including most likely myself… ;-)). I also found it helpful to review this discourse blog post about discourse as your first rails app while setting up virtualbox on my mac.
- after step 1, also install git as instructed when you try to clone the discourse repo.
- after installing git, follow these directions to also generate a new ssh key and add it to the ssh agent, then add to your github settings.
This is a good news, bad news post. Where I get stuck is on step 3. It hangs and eventually times out. I know this is a virtualbox/vagrant issue or even a hardware issue, but I’d be grateful for any advice. Here’s as far as I have come -
I followed these instructions found on stack overflow to add some lines to Vagrantinfo file, to turn on the gui so I can see what’s causing the holdup:
config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
vb.gui = true
end
This is what I found:
I am puzzled because I have a newish 2015 macbook pro with retina display, and am fairly certain it supports hardware acceleration. Also not getting entirely why I’d need such a thing for a discourse dev box. Anyhoo, now off to try this on a different laptop…