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Local Install Requirements

• A Mac or Linux pc
• Installed Node.js (https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager)
• Installed npm (Node package manager - you quite possibly already have this)
• Installed Grunt (build tool) sudo npm -g install grunt-cli
• Installed Ruby >= v1.9.x (on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev) & bundler (You may already have this installed, but run ruby -v to check version number)
• Installed Jekyll gem gem install jekyll

Running locally

Assuming you have checked out this project, open a console and change directory into the root of the project.

• Ensure you have the following twitter variables in your environment, to allow posts to be rendered with embedded tweets:
  • TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY
  • TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET
  • TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN
  • TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
• Now get dependecies with sh grunt
• Then compile the static assets by running grunt from the root of the project
• Next change into the Jekyll directory cd jekyll
• Run the Jekyll local server jekyll serve --baseurl (more command line options can be found within the Jekyll docs)
• Point your web browser of choice to http://localhost:4000/