feat: integrate LuaRocks package manager

init.lua

@@ -58,3 +58,7 @@ require("config.rootiest").setup()
 --  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LAZY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 -- Load Lazy package manager and plugins
 require("config.lazy")
+
+--  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ROCKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+-- Load LuaRocks package manager and plugins
+require("config.rocks")

lua/config/rocks.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+--          ╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
+--          │                          ROCKS                          │
+--          ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
+
+--  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Bootstrap rocks.nvim ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+do
+  -- Specifies where to install/use rocks.nvim
+  ---@diagnostic disable-next-line: param-type-mismatch
+  local install_location = vim.fs.joinpath(vim.fn.stdpath("data"), "rocks")
+
+  -- Set up configuration options related to rocks.nvim (recommended to leave as default)
+  local rocks_config = {
+    rocks_path = vim.fs.normalize(install_location),
+  }
+
+  vim.g.rocks_nvim = rocks_config
+
+  -- Configure the package path (so that plugin code can be found)
+  local luarocks_path = {
+    vim.fs.joinpath(rocks_config.rocks_path, "share", "lua", "5.1", "?.lua"),
+    vim.fs.joinpath(
+      rocks_config.rocks_path,
+      "share",
+      "lua",
+      "5.1",
+      "?",
+      "init.lua"
+    ),
+  }
+  package.path = package.path .. ";" .. table.concat(luarocks_path, ";")
+
+  -- Configure the C path (so that e.g. tree-sitter parsers can be found)
+  local luarocks_cpath = {
+    vim.fs.joinpath(rocks_config.rocks_path, "lib", "lua", "5.1", "?.so"),
+    vim.fs.joinpath(rocks_config.rocks_path, "lib64", "lua", "5.1", "?.so"),
+  }
+  package.cpath = package.cpath .. ";" .. table.concat(luarocks_cpath, ";")
+
+  -- Load all installed plugins, including rocks.nvim itself
+  vim.opt.runtimepath:append(
+    vim.fs.joinpath(
+      rocks_config.rocks_path,
+      "lib",
+      "luarocks",
+      "rocks-5.1",
+      "rocks.nvim",
+      "*"
+    )
+  )
+end
+
+-- If rocks.nvim is not installed then install it!
+if not pcall(require, "rocks") then
+  ---@diagnostic disable-next-line: param-type-mismatch
+  local rocks_location = vim.fs.joinpath(vim.fn.stdpath("cache"), "rocks.nvim")
+
+  if not vim.uv.fs_stat(rocks_location) then
+    -- Pull down rocks.nvim
+    vim.fn.system({
+      "git",
+      "clone",
+      "--filter=blob:none",
+      "https://github.com/nvim-neorocks/rocks.nvim",
+      rocks_location,
+    })
+  end
+
+  -- If the clone was successful then source the bootstrapping script
+  assert(
+    vim.v.shell_error == 0,
+    "rocks.nvim installation failed. Try exiting and re-entering Neovim!"
+  )
+
+  vim.cmd.source(vim.fs.joinpath(rocks_location, "bootstrap.lua"))
+
+  vim.fn.delete(rocks_location, "rf")
+end