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# How Do I Install Discourse?
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It is still early times for Discourse. From [our FAQ](http://www.discourse.org/faq/):
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> Discourse is brand new. Discourse is early beta software, and likely to remain so for many months.
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> Please experiment with it, play with it, give us feedback, submit pull requests – but any consideration
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> of fully adopting Discourse is for people and organizations who are eager to live on the bleeding and broken edge.
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Still interested?
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### [**Click here for the OFFICIAL INSTALL GUIDE**][1]
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Alternately, you can try the [unofficial Heroku install guide][2], or the [BitNami Discourse Virtual Machine package][3].
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## Quick and Dirty Install
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### Hardware
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- Dual core CPU recommended
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- 2 GB RAM recommended (1 GB can work, but you'll need swap ..)
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### Software
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1. **Postgres 9.1+**
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- Enable support for HSTORE
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- Create a discourse database and seed it with a basic image
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2. **Redis 2.6+**
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3. **Ruby 1.9.3+** (we recommend 2.0.0-p195 or higher)
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- Install all rubygems via bundler
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- Edit database.yml and redis.yml and point them at your databases.
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- Run `rake db:seed_fu` to add seed data
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- Prepackage all assets using rake
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- Run the Rails database migrations
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- Run a sidekiq process for background jobs
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- Run a clockwork process for enqueing scheduled jobs
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- Run several Rails processes, preferably behind a proxy like Nginx.
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### Low memory (less than 2 GB)
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Remember you *will* need swap enabled and working! To reduce memory footprint, clockwork can run inside your web server. If you launch the your web server with `EMBED_CLOCKWORK=1`, clockwork will run in a backgroud thread. As clockwork itself only performs scheduling, it will have very little impact on performance.
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[1]: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-ubuntu.md
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[2]: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/HEROKU.md
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[3]: http://bitnami.com/stack/discourse
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