# Share your Discourse dev setup

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [January 6, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-your-discourse-dev-setup/105816 "2019-01-06T14:53:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-your-discourse-dev-setup/105816/1 "2019-01-06T14:53:12Z")

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I will start with my own setup on macOS.

I don’t use docker for speed reasons and also because I enjoy having fewer indirections levels as much as possible.

- redis is installed with homebrew
- I use postgress.app for the database ( easy start/stop and version selection) If you need a very good gui on macOS I recommend postico
- mailcatcher gem for mails
- puma-dev for subfomains/domains/https/tlds… handling ( note it works with unicorn just fine)
- ngrok for when I need to test some things on another device easily
- my editor is configured to work with eslint/prettier/rubocop
- I have my own discourse fork, I will rebase from discourse/discourse master each time I start working/pushing and create a branch for each chunk of work

I have various scripts and alias to start/stop/reser/swap dbs and thats most of it.

If you have questions on specific parts of this setup, feel free to ask.

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