Setting up discourse locally

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Gourav_Sardana wants to contribute to the Discourse forum and is trying to set it up locally. awesomerobot provided a link to the Discourse Development Contribution Guidelines, which includes installation instructions for various operating systems.

Gourav_Sardana attempted to set up Discourse on their Mac and later on Ubuntu, but encountered errors. They shared screenshots of the errors and asked for help. After running into issues with the admin setup, Gourav_Sardana was able to resolve the problem by running Ember CLI and accessing the Discourse frontend through localhost:4200.

Gourav_Sardana suggested adding the Ember CLI instructions to the contribution guidelines and offered to submit a pull request to make the changes.

Hey everyone,

I saw this project via github. I want to contribute to the discourse forum. Please let me know how can i setup it locally and how i can start.
I have an experience on ruby. I’m not able to setup. I installed everything from bundle but still.

Can anyone guide me and share some docs regarding contributing to discourse.

I’m glad you’re interesting in contributing! Take a look at Contributing to Discourse development, which also has some links to dev-install instructions for various operating systems.

If you’re running into a specific error searching this community can help, and if you can’t find the answer be sure to include all the relevant details when you start a new topic.

Thanks @awesomerobot . Will surely look into it and try to get it set on my mac.

@awesomerobot I got this error while registering

I got this screen after setting up everything on ubuntu. But in the above link that you have shared it should be forum homepage

I got this screen

Now I use the command to create a admin which is given in the same link. Now it says - run ember-cli and use some localhost4200 to see discourse.

Am I missing something ?

After running the ember js for the frontend. It’ll works now. Please add these ember-cli instruction in the above links or I’ll add those thing by myself and raise a PR