Setting up Discourse for Local Development (Local Host)

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Setting up Discourse for local development is not easy, especially if we don’t know Ruby on Rails (The framework that powers Discourse). I found this guide helpful. It contains every necessary step:

Update 24/05/2024! Setting up Discourse for Local Development on Mac. (Tested on M1 chip - macOS Sonoma 14.4.1)

Follow this guide: Install Discourse on macOS for development - developers - Discourse Meta

When you visit the above URL, please whatever you do, don’t run the bash script. Manually install the packages yourself, one after the other.

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Feel free to contact me if you get stuck. I will be happy to help.

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You’ll also need to install the Docuss plug-in to connect Discourse to our React/Meteor app

If you need any other plugins, or want to install them all right away so your platform operates exactly as the live one here’s a full list of plugins. Only Docuss operates directly on the ReactJS/MeteorJS. Others may interact with the i-frame window it loads in (toolbars and floating footers).

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You can also find detailed instructions for setting up discourse on MacOS:

and on Windows:

A heads up for Mac users: one of the biggest hurdles you might encounter is that MacOS makes it difficult to update ruby (and you’ll need <= 2.7 to run discourse). Here’s a very useful and instructive guide on how to update ruby on MacOS:

also check Ruby’s guides to installing ruby:
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/#rvm

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Those resources are a fantastic help to others in the future, thank you!

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