https://luarocks.org

The official module repository of the LuaRocks package manager for Lua.

The entire site runs on OpenResty, an Nginx based platform with Lua support. The site itself is coded in MoonScript and uses Lapis as a web framework.

Files are stored on Google Cloud Storage. PostgreSQL is used as a database.

Tup is the build system.

Install the following dependencies:

• Tup
• sassc
• CoffeeScript
• Discount (or something that provides markdown executable)
• PostgreSQL
• OpenResty
• Redis

Check out this repository.

Install dependencies:

luarocks build --only-deps --lua-version=5.1 --local

Run these commands to build:

tup init
tup

Create the schema:

make init_schema

Start the server:

lapis server

Now http://localhost:8080 should load.

If you edit any MoonScript or SCSS files you should call tup to rebuild the changes. You can run tup monitor -a to watch the filesystem to rebuild.

This site uses Busted for its tests:

make test_db
busted

The make test_db command will copy the schema of the moonrocks local database into the test database, wiping out what whatever was there. You'll only need to run this command once and the beginning any any time the schema has changed.

In production all files are stored on Google Cloud Storage. With no configuration (default), files are stored on the file system using the storage bucket mock provided by the cloud_storage rock.

To configure cloud_storage to talk to a live bucket make a file secret/storage_bucket.moon, it must return a bucket instance. It might look something like:

-- secret/storage_bucket.moon
import OAuth from require "cloud_storage.oauth"
import CloudStorage from require "cloud_storage.google"

o = OAuth "[email protected]", "PRIVATEKEY.pem"
CloudStorage(o, "PROJECT_ID")\bucket "BUCKET_NAME"

If you want to test sending emails you'll have to provide Mailgun credentials. Create a file secret/email.moon and make it look something like this: (it must return a table of options)

{ -- secret/email.moon
  key: "api:key-MY_KEY"
  domain: "mydomain.mailgun.org"
  sender: "MoonRocks <[email protected]>"
}