Set up a local Discourse Development Environment?

So you want to set up Discourse locally to hack on and develop with?

This root guide links all the dev-install guides for the various systems to setup Discourse locally on. If you want to add a guide to this list, be sure to tag it dev-install before editing this post to include it here.

(If you want to install Discourse for production use, see our install guide )

In no particular order, here are the install guides for setting Discourse up on your local environment:


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