Lua Pastebin

[Nikki]

Laravel's paste bucket went down earlier today and I've always wanted an extremely simple paste site (even though I still run http://paste.ee), so I threw this together. It's pretty cool considering a lua website is very rare.

It would take a bit of compiling to get it to work, so I suggest just looking through the code if you don't wish to spend an hour getting it to work right.

https://github.com/nikkiii/luapaste

Requires:

Lua 5.1 (LuaJIT-2.0 optional, edit the Makefile in luafcgid to use regular lua if you wish, easily available in apt and likely yum)

https://github.com/nikkiii/luafcgid (requires a fastcgi capable webserver, check the readme)

https://github.com/nikkiii/luadbi (only need to run 'make mysql', you will need to move dbdmysql.so to /usr/lib/lua/5.1 and dbi.lua to /usr/share/lua/5.1)

https://github.com/nikkiii/chariot

 

[MannDude]

Pretty neat. What is Lua usually used for? This is first time that I recall seeing a web app written in it.

Also good move going to Piwik, we did the same months ago.

 

[Shados]

Pretty neat. What is Lua usually used for? This is first time that I recall seeing a web app written in it.


Also good move going to Piwik, we did the same months ago.

Lua is primarily used as an embedded scripting language, usually for things like games / game engines. Also, Prosody is written in it.

 

[BuyCPanel-Kevin]

Curious why you wrote it in Lua over something like Ruby or something

 

[Nikki]

Pretty neat. What is Lua usually used for? This is first time that I recall seeing a web app written in it.

Also good move going to Piwik, we did the same months ago.

Heh, I love it already. Google's user interface was never really that good for my taste, Piwik is nice and clear, and the mobile app is amazing

I'm also thinking about running this alongside the original paste.ee as a simpler solution, or even modifying it so paste.ee could also use this design for people who want a more simple interface

Curious why you wrote it in Lua over something like Ruby or something

 

I really don't like Ruby, it has a few nice features but it's too bloated for my taste. I'd rather use Lua and compile everything I need myself