Importing bbPress into Discourse

[treb0r]

Okay, sorry for the n00b question above.

I’ve seen this thread:

Migrate from another forum to Discourse

This guide serves as a high level overview of the migration process. For specifics on the wide range of forum softwares to import, including Vanilla, phpBB3, SMF2, bbPress, and vBulletin, review our dedicated tutorials. Not all scripts have tutorials, but an exhaustive list of available imports is available under the script/import_scripts folder on GitHub. So you want to migrate your existing forum to Discourse? That’s great! Let’s get started! 1. Set Up a Development Environment …

…and now I’m wondering how to go about running the BBPress script.

The instructions say:

"After reviewing and modifying, to run the bbPress import script you will do:

cd path/to/your/discourse_folder
ruby script/import_scripts/bbpress.rb"

In my case this will be from inside the Docker container. If I can get it to run, am I correct in thinking that the database lives outside the container and that any content I manage to import will persist if I destry and rebuild the container?

Also, can I run mailcatcher from inside the container? I would like to avoid spamming my users as I tinker with the import process.

Any hints or tips gratefully received! Anybody looking for some paid consulting work?