A command line tool for uploading and installing from the public Lua module hosting site, LuaRocks.

This tool is no longer necessary as this functionality has been added to the main LuaRocks tool.

Install using LuaRocks:

$ luarocks install moonrocks

Add --local or --tree if you need to install to a different location

This will give us the command line tool moonrocks.

moonrocks comes with two main commands, install and upload. You can run moonrocks help to see help from the command line.

This command is no longer necessary as rocks.moonrocks.org has become luarocks.org

install is a simple wrapper for running luarocks install, except that it prepends --server=http://rocks.moonscript.org to the argument list, ensuring that MoonRocks is checked as a module source.

For example, the following two commands are equivalent:

$ moonrocks install --local moonscript # install with moonrocks

$ luarocks --server=http://rocks.moonscript.org install --local moonscript # install with luarocks

upload will upload a rockspec to the server. If the module doesn't exist yet it will be created, if it already exists the new version will be added to it. If a version for that rockspec already exists then you will be prompted to overwrite.

This is equivalent to going to http://rocks.moonscript.org/upload and uploading a rockspec.

By default upload will use luarocks pack to pack the rockspec into a rock. That rock will also be uploaded along with the rockspec. (This creates a src rock). If you don't wish to pack and upload a rock then include the flag --skip-pack

All remote actions (such as uploading a rockspec) require an associated account on MoonRocks. You give access to your account by generating and API key. The first time you issue a remote command you will be asked to log in. This involves generating an API key at http://rocks.moonscript.org/settings and pasting it into the tool.

You can call login to set or replace your API key. You shouldn't normally need to call this, upload will attempt to log you in automatically if a key is not configured.

Your API key is stored in USER_HOME/.moonrocks/config.lua.

Thanks to the following libraries:

• Penlight
• ansicolors
• luasocket
• lua-cjson

Copyright (C) 2013 by Leaf Corcoran

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