1. create and activate a virtual environment

2. install requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt

3. create an account on https://getstream.io

4. Use the default created app or create a new one with the feeds with the following names and types:

   a. user, flat b. notification, notification c. timline, flat d. timline_aggregated, aggregated

5. get your API credentials (key and secret) and add them to the bottom of core/settings.py (STREAM_API_KEY and STREAM_API_SECRET)

6. Change the following settings in core/settings.py:

DEBUG = True

...

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': 'testdatabase.sqlite',
    }
}

7. install ruby dependencies (compass) via bundler bundler or with gem gem install compass
8. initialize your app python manage.py after_deploy
9. collect static files python manage.py collectstatic
10. compress the static files python manage.py compress
11. start the webserver python manage.py runserver
12. open your browser on http://localhost:8000

If you have any problems please open a issue on github and paste any error you get in the console.