discourse/docs/INSTALL.md
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# Discourse "Quick-and-Dirty" Install Guide
It is still early times for Discourse. From our FAQ:
> Discourse is brand new. Discourse is early beta software, and likely to remain so for many months.
> Please experiment with it, play with it, give us feedback, submit pull requests – but any consideration
> of fully adopting Discourse is for people and organizations who are eager to live on the bleeding and broken edge.
Discourse has two fairly decent install documents now:
- Our [**official Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS install document**][1]
- [Unofficial Heroku install document][2]
Beyond that, if you are feeling extra *extra* adventurous you can try to set up following components manually:
1. **Postgres 9.1+**
- Enable support for HSTORE
- Create a discourse database and seed it with a basic image
2. **Redis 2.6+**
3. **Ruby 1.9.3+** (we recommend 2.0.0-p195 or higher)
- Install all rubygems via bundler
- Edit database.yml and redis.yml and point them at your databases.
- Run `rake db:seed_fu` to add seed data
- Prepackage all assets using rake
- Run the Rails database migrations
- Run a sidekiq process for background jobs
- Run a clockwork process for enqueing scheduled jobs
- Run several Rails processes, preferably behind a proxy like Nginx.
[1]: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-ubuntu.md
[2]: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/HEROKU.md