Oh, that's encouraging.
The problem is that luarocks needs to know where the lua installation is.
I was wondering about installing an independent lua (eg. via apt-get) and then keeping the Freeswitch installation of lua a secret from luarocks.
Maybe will give that a go...
Luarocks is a package management system for lua, for instance you can use luarocks to install luasql-postgres :
luarocks install luasql-postgres

Then on your lua scripts you build on FreeSWITCH, you can use/include those libraries.
You only have to make sure to configure your lua.conf.xml and set module-directory to where the packages are installed on your distribution :

That's what I have at the moment with Ubuntu 12.04 :
    <param name="module-directory" value="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/?.so"/>
    <param name="module-directory" value="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lua/5.1/?.so"/>
    <param name="module-directory" value="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lua/5.1/luasql/?.so"/>
    <param name="module-directory" value="/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/lua/5.1/?.so"/>
    <param name="module-directory" value="/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/?.so"/>



On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Alex Lake <alex@digitalmail.com> wrote:
I was wondering about how one might use luarocks with the lua used by
Freeswitch - is this possible? Can't see much of help in the wiki, but
if I find out, will pay the tax! ;-)

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