Originally Posted by jsbigs

The Knots directory was (and is) in my home directory.

I did everything according to the wiki (though maybe I did it wrong):

"Run:
git clone git://github.com/solmis/knots.git

Then start the server with:

cd knots
./knots.rb

OS X users can create a standalone app too:

./install/create_osx_app"

And then I moved the "Knots" app from home/knots/os x to /Applications.