Initialize a virtualenv and install cloaca.

virtualenv --no-site-packages venv.cloaca
source venv.cloaca/bin/activate
(venv.cloaca) git clone https://github.com/mhmurray/cloaca.git
(venv.cloaca) cd cloaca/

Set up a Redis instance, on port 6379.

Optionally minify the CSS file (Requires Java to run YUI compressor)

(venv.cloaca) python setup.py minify_css

Optionally minify the Javascript (requires NodeJS)

(venv.cloaca) nodejs r.js -o cloaca.build.js

This should produce cloaca/site/style.min.css and cloaca/site/cloaca.min.js.

Install the package into the virtualenv

(venv.cloaca) python setup.py install

Run the server on localhost:8080 without SSL

(venv.cloaca) cloacaapp.py --port 8080 --no-ssl

Point your browser to localhost:8080.

This is still in early testing. No promises about proper web security. Also don't run this against a Redis instance you care about. cloacaapp.py does support Redis's SELECT to pick a database, but there is no support for a key prefix to avoid clobbering other stored keys.