aider/docker

Running aider with docker (experimental)

You can run aider via docker without doing any local installation, like this:

docker run -it --volume `pwd`:/app paulgauthier/aider

You will also need to pass in your OPENAI_API_KEY, which can be done with the --openai-api-key argument:

docker run -it --volume `pwd`:/app paulgauthier/aider --openai-api-key $OPENAI_API_KEY

You should run the above commands from the root of your git repo.

You should be sure your that git repo config contains your user name and email, since the docker container won't have your global git config:

git config user.email "you@example.com"
git config user.name "Your Name"

Be aware that when you use the in-chat /run command, it will be running shell commands inside the docker container. So those commands won't be running in your local environment, which may make it tricky to /run tests, etc for your project.