# Migrate a Kunena 3 forum to Discourse

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**Category:** Sysadmins\
**Tags:** how-to\
**Created:** [May 6, 2016, 5:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-a-kunena-3-forum-to-discourse/43776 "2016-05-06T05:25:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 12:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-a-kunena-3-forum-to-discourse/43776/31 "2018-04-04T12:40:58Z")

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I wrote a couple importers before I knew ruby. My Programming Languages professor told us in 1986 that if a job requirement was to know some language, we didn’t need to worry. He was right.

I recommend doing things the rails way rather than mucking with the database directly.

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