This is a buildpack for Heroku that comes bundled with LuaJIT 2.0.4, Luarocks, CMake, and the moonmint server.

This actually extremely generic, however, and can be easily be used as a genric LuaJIT + Luarocks buildpack. You could certianly run xavante or some other Lua server pretty easily with this buildpack.

heroku create --buildpack http://github.com/bakpakin/heroku-buildpack-moonmint.git

After creating your app, create a file in your heroku project called server.lua with the following contents:

local moonmint = require 'moonmint'
local app = moonmint()

app:get('/', 'Hello, Moonmint on Heroku!')

app:start {
    port = os.getenv 'PORT'
}

You now have a functional website and a server. Push to heroku and view your deployed masterpiece.

This buildpack sets up LuaJIT and Luarocks and configures the relevant environment variables for easy usage, but makes very few asumptions about your build setup. It places the necesarry files (luajit, luarocks, cmake) in the .heroku directroy of the generated slug (/app/.heroku). It comes with some preinstalled rocks - moonmint, and openssl, mostly because they are binary rocks and are available only on the dev server.

You can also add pre and post install scripts in the root of your project. These should just be executable files called heroku-mm-preinstall and heroku-mm-postinstall respectively. These run before and after luarocks installs dependencies.

Place a rockspec file (can be called anything with the extension .rockspec) in the root folder of your project. The compile script will use luarocks build --only-deps $ROCKSPEC to install the dependencies listed in that rockspec. The rockspec does not have to contain valid descriptions of the rest of your project, only the dependencies.

You can also create a heroku-mm-preinstall exectuable file that installs the needed rocks. Example:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

luarocks install dkjson
luarocks install openssl --server=http://luarocks.org/dev
luarocks build rockspecs/myrockspec.rockspec

Note that because CMake is bundled, you can install rocks that need CMake to build (like luv).

It is pretty easy to modify this buildpack to pre-install your own rocks, or to remove the rocks that have been preinstalled. Simply fork this buildpack and create a simple heroku application using your fork. You can push a dud application first. Then:

# SSH into a deployed slug.
heroku run bash

# In the slug, remove the packages you don't need and install those you do.
# You can also uninstall cmake from the .heroku directory, or install other things there.
luarocks remove moonmint
luarocks remove openssl
luarocks install luasec

# Now create a tarball of the entire .heroku directory
tar -czvf heroku.tar.gz .heroku

# Upload this file somewhere so you can save it later.
curl --upload-file heroku.tar.gz https://transfer.sh/heroku.tar.gz
# Transfer.sh should give back a url like https://transfer.sh/TN64/heroku.tar.gz

# You're done on the slug.
exit

Now cd into the git repository of your forked buildpack. From there, replace the heroku directory with the one we just compressed and uploaded. You will need to donwload it from wherever you uploaded it.

# The actually URL will be different!
wget https://transfer.sh/TN64/heroku.tar.gz
tar -xzvf heroku.tar.gz
rm -rf heroku
mv .heroku heroku

Commit and push the changes you made.

• Dependency caching for faster builds