LuaNode-Socket.IO

Sockets for the rest of us (in LuaNode).

LuaNode-Socket.IO is a Socket.IO server for LuaNode. It's currently only compatible with Socket.IO v0.7pre, so it is not ready for prime-time yet.

Status

Currently, the only transports actively supported are websockets, flashsockets, xhr-multipart and xhr-polling, and the server is only compatible with v0.7pre clients. The other transports are disabled by default because they are a bit unstable at the moment. I'll add proper support for them soon and eventually add support for v0.6 clients.

Installation

The easiest way to install is with LuaRocks.

• luarocks install https://github.com/ignacio/LuaNode-Socket.IO/raw/master/rockspecs/lnsocketio-github-1.rockspec

You'll also need some Json library for Lua. LuaJSON or Json4Lua are recommended.

• luarocks install json4lua

And also:

• luarocks install luuid
• luarocks install luabitop

If luuid gives you trouble to install (especially on MacOSX), you might try the following:

• Download and extract e2fsprogs
• cd e2fsprogs-1.41.12
• ./configure
• cd lib/uuid
• make
• ./tst_uuid
• cp uuid.so /usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/

or read this post.

Documentation

The usage is the same as Socket.IO-node.

Example

See the included file test.lua. Once properly installed, you'd be able to do:

git clone git://github.com/ignacio/LuaNode-Socket.IO.git lnsocket-io
cd lnsocket-io/
sudo luanode test.lua

And then point your browser to http://localhost:8080.

Acknowledgements

• Guillermo Rauch (Guille) and Arnout Kazemier (3rd-Eden) for Socket.IO.

License

LuaNode-Socket.IO is available under the MIT license.