# Rake Command? Where?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-command-where/65181
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [June 27, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-command-where/65181 "2017-06-27T09:54:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![cryptochrome](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cryptochrome/32/74380_2.png) [@cryptochrome](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cryptochrome)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-command-where/65181/1 "2017-06-27T09:54:14Z")

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Hi,

when going through the config, I stumble across the rake command here and there, which I am supposed to run to do certain things. However, if I go into my Discourse folder /var/discourse and enter “rake”, my Ubuntu tells me this command is not installed.

Do I need to install it? Or do I have to get inside the container somehow and run it from there?

Thanks from a total newb ™. 🙂

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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2017, 9:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-command-where/65181/2 "2017-06-27T09:55:19Z")

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Discourse runs inside a docker container, so before running rake you need to enter the container by running

```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app

```

Then go ahead and run the rake command

To get out of the container just type

```plaintext
exit

```

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### Author: ![cryptochrome](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cryptochrome/32/74380_2.png) [@cryptochrome](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cryptochrome)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2017, 9:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-command-where/65181/3 "2017-06-27T09:59:20Z")

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Awesome, thank you! 🙂

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-command-where/65181/4 "2019-06-22T13:25:41Z")

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### Author: ![j.jaffeux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j.jaffeux/32/60297_2.png) [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-command-where/65181/5 "2019-06-22T16:33:14Z")

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