Hacking DISCOURSE

[OtherMichael]

Continuing the discussion from Can we have a random number generator?:

@gwwar

Discbot is running on a x1 dyno on Heroku, and yes I was testing against a local instance of Discourse.

I’ll write a help command tonight. The bot is unfinished, I still have a a lot of cleanup to do including better test coverage. (I was rushing it a bit yesterday).

If people are interested in writing more scripts I’ll focus on creating a test harness that won’t require you to install all of discourse.

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I know there is a whole site and a whole Discourse Discourse devoted to… Discourse.

Where would you recommend beginning to look for somebody looking to install it locally?

Assume zero Ruby knowledge.

I’m a .NET (sigh) and NodeJS guy (I should be saying “is.js” but life’s too short).

[gwwar]

They have two setup paths, one uses a vagrant image and the other is a local install. Pick your poison.

1. http://blog.discourse.org/2013/04/discourse-as-your-first-rails-app/
2. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/VAGRANT.md
3. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/DEVELOPER-ADVANCED.md

(Don’t forget to run sidekiq and mailcatcher when you have something running!)

[OtherMichael]

Okay, that’s something to look into. I recognize none of those words.