xLua

Exercism exercises in Lua

Setup Dev environment for contributing

For Mac OS, you can use homebrew to install Lua and luarocks

$ brew install lua

Then install busted testing framework for lua. Busted is similiar to Jasmine testing framework in Javascript.

$ luarocks install busted

Then create a folder for a new test, test class and the implementation.

→ ls -l
total 16
-rw-r--r--@ 1 aarti  staff  1111 Nov 25 14:05 bob_test.lua
-rw-r--r--@ 1 aarti  staff   453 Nov 25 14:05 bob.lua

Run the test

$ busted .

Rename bob.lua to example.lua, add test to config.json

→ ls -l
total 16
-rw-r--r--@ 1 aarti  staff  1111 Nov 25 14:05 bob_test.lua
-rw-r--r--@ 1 aarti  staff   453 Nov 25 14:05 example.lua

Other resources

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