Talk:LuaRocks

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computer science, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Computer science related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Computer scienceWikipedia:WikiProject Computer scienceTemplate:WikiProject Computer scienceComputer science articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Things you can help WikiProject Computer science with:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :
- Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Computer science, computing, and Internet
Cleanup :
- Computer science articles needing attention
- Computer science articles needing expert attention
Copyedit :
- Computing
Expand :
- Computer science
Infobox :
- Computer science articles without infoboxes
Maintain :
- Timeline of computing 2020–present
Photo :
- Find pictures for the biographies of computer scientists (see List of computer scientists)
- Computing articles needing images
Stubs :
- Computer science stubs
Unreferenced :
- WikiProject Computer science/Unreferenced BLPs
Project-related :
- Tag all relevant articles in Category:Computer science and sub-categories with {{WikiProject Computer science}}

LuaOnTheRocks[edit]

It's often handy to be able to dump Lua tables to a human-readable format and paste them e.g into Excel for ad hoc analysis. There are lots of snippets on the Web, and for years I had a short one that worked fine - but I couldn't find it this time of asking. So I Googled and unfortunately found what looked like a good idea, convert to JSON, complete with an example using luarocks.

This may work on UNIX systems, but it's a total mess on on Windows despite what is claimed. At first glance the install instructions look quite detailed (not simple, but that's not to be expected in a conversion like this). So a key step will be to run their INSTALL.BAT. A quick search to see what nasties might be hidden there. A longer, more careful search - there ain't no INSTALL.BAT!!!

After a few hours of applying chewing gum, I rerun my working Lua program MYPROG -f afile.lua > myfile.out "Error while executing script from MYPROG": afile.lua:26: module 'luarocks.loader' not found: 109.26.41.115 (talk) 22:50, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]