Hi! I’m trying to install Discourse locally using the relatively new Docker for Mac. This is the error I’m getting while trying to rebuild for the first time: /launcher rebuild app Ensuring launcher is up to date Fetching origin Launcher is up-to-date cd /pups && git pull && /pups/bin/pups --stdi…

I was trying to say that -v "discourse-sync:/src:nocopy" should not be changed, otherwise the source code would be mounted to a different directory in the container. This explains why neither rails nor bundler could find the source code. :man_facepalming:

D’oh :wink: Brilliant, thank you! Having this up and running makes dev work so much easier! :slight_smile: I owe you a :beer:

Be sure to do a PR to discourse making this config optional so we both document and make switches for it.

So I had it working for a few minutes. Then I noticed that files weren’t actually syncing after making changes. Figured I’d try a docker-sync clean and do the whole thing again. I do the same steps we just went through, but again, I get the Gemfile not found message. However, this time I haven’t ren…

Is there a way to check if the source code is mounted to the right directory? d/shell into the container and check manually? docker-sync on macOS is not quite stable (judging from its GitHub issues), but I’ve rarely had problems myself. I added the docker-sync related functionalities to Discour…

Nice! Unfortuntely, even on your branch I get “Could not locate Gemfile” :confused: in /discourse: $ ./bin/docker/boot_dev --init Using source in: /Users/jorgen/Dropbox/Design/2018/discourse Using data in: /Users/jorgen/Dropbox/Design/2018/discourse/data/postgres ok Starting native_osx…

Could you try d/shutdown_dev && docker-sync clean && rm .docker-sync/daemon.log && d/boot_dev, and PM me the content of .docker-sync/daemon.log? Please do not add the --init option just yet, since that will obfuscate the log.

Ah, I had forgotten to do a docker-sync clean after switching to your code, it seems to work as it should now :slight_smile: Thanks again :smiley:

Sorry but I am having trouble understanding the setup process to get Discourse working locally with Docker for Mac. I’m not that great with Docker yet, so bear with me. The first thing I did was run: docker pull discourse/base:release That downloads fine. Then I create a container by running: do…

[image] xrav3nz: I added the docker-sync related functionalities to Discourse and pushed it to a branch on my fork: xrav3nz:dev/docker-sync . Would you like to try it out instead? docker-sync is integrated into boot_dev and shutdown_dev, and all the existing docker scripts should continue to wo…

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xrav3nz May 14, 2020, 1:46pm 45

It’s a Docker for Mac issue. Setting up Discourse natively on your Mac for development will improve performace drastically.

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