Anyone familiar with Bort? How is it supposed to be used?

Noob here, obviously.

I checked Bort out and was left a bit confused. It seems everything I try to do either breaks or interferes with some of its default configurations and plugins.

I realize Bort is intended for people who already know their way around an app, and what they are doing, and not as a shortcut for noobs, but I am really intrigued, and would like to have a better idea of how to even begin playing with it.

So if someone could provide a quick sort of "checklist" of how to get things rolling properly with it, I would appreciate.

You are right Bort is not a noob app, but its very easy to setup.

    * Download and unzip Bort     * Edit the database.yml and the settings.yml files     * Changed the default password in the bort migration     * Edit the REST_AUTH_SITE_KEY in each of the environment files     * Rake db:migrate     * Have a brew and celebrate

That's from the Bort site. Is there something in particular that is breaking? I have used Bort and other apps like it many times as the base for my applications just to get a jump start on the basic functions...