README.rst

Lua for Databuild

Installation

In order to be able to use Lua, you'll need to have the Lua environment installed before you install databuild.

Linux

Requirements: Lua or LuaJIT

On Ubuntu, these are the packages you need:

$ sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-0-dev liblua50-dev liblualib50-dev

Then you can install databuild:

$ pip install https://github.com/fcurella/databuild/archive/master.tar.gz

OS X

Requirements: Lua (LuaJIT is not supported ATM)

Temporarily unlink LuaJIT if you have it installed:

$ brew unlink luajit

Install Lua with brew:

$ brew install lua

Install databuild with the WITHLUA environment variable set:

$ WITHLUA=True pip install https://github.com/fcurella/databuild/archive/master.tar.gz

After databuild is installed, you can re-link LuaJIT if you need:

$ brew link luajit

Configuration

Add 'lua': 'databuild_lua.lua.LuaEnvironment' to your LANGUAGES settings:

LANGUAGES = {
    'python': 'databuild.environments.python.PythonEnvironment',
    'lua': 'databuild_lua.lua.LuaEnvironment',
}