Re: Lua buildpack for Heroku

[leaf corcoran <leafot@...>]

Updated it to use a rockspec and set the correct package paths by default:
https://github.com/leafo/heroku-buildpack-lua/blob/master/README.md


On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:48 AM, leaf corcoran <leafot@gmail.com> wrote:
> No reason. It didn't occur to me to do it until I had already written
> the code for package.lua. I plan on updating it to it run a rockspec.
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Humberto S. N. dos Anjos
> <h.anjos@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, why did you create a package.lua with the project
>> dependencies? Couldn't that information be extracted from the project's
>> rockspec?
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:27 PM, leaf corcoran <leafot@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I created a buildpack for running Lua web apps on heroku
>>> (http://www.heroku.com/), the cloud hosting service. It's free to run
>>> simple apps.
>>>
>>> The build pack is here: https://github.com/leafo/heroku-buildpack-lua
>>>
>>> I also wrote a tutorial post on how to use it:
>>> http://leafo.net/posts/lua_on_heroku.html
>>>
>>> I haven't tried any database connectivity yet. Just tried running a
>>> simple webapp powered by Xavante. I messed around running orbit as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> The whole process was pretty smooth, my method is describing
>>> dependencies is pretty sloppy though.
>>>
>>> Check it out and tell me what you think.
>>>
>>> -- Leaf
>>>
>>