1# Local Collaboration
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 3## Setting up the local collaboration server
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 5### Setting up for the first time?
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 7Install [Postgres](https://postgresapp.com) and run it.
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 9Then, from the root of the repo, run `script/bootstrap`.
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11### Have a db that is out of date? / Need to migrate?
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13Try `cd crates/collab && cargo run -- migrate` from the root of the repo.
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15## Testing collab locally
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171. Run `foreman start` from the root of the repo.
181. In another terminal run `script/start-local-collaboration`.
191. Two copies of Zed will open. Add yourself as a contact in the one that is not you.
201. Start a collaboration session as normal with any open project.