Yes. I believe @develephant is using OpenResty. It is amazing!!!
@develephant, just checking in to see how your Keurig supplies are doing. Let us know if you need a top up.
Very curious to see if you have any progress. About to start a new project and I would love to go in this direction if at all possible. No pressure! 
Thanks much for all you do for our community!!!
@ksan - I have. You must hear the chimes ringing because I am putting together some demo stuff right now. :)
Hang tight, I would love some testing feedback.
Cheers.
Best news ever!!! Can’t wait.
Hello,
I’ve posted more information about the project at http://coronium.org
You can view a screencast of the progress. The Lua cloud code in particular starts around 9:17
Still working on the push component, but will have some progress by next week.
If anyone is interested please join the Google Group here.
Cheers.
@develephant
cheers, may you succeed, hoorah!
before i join the craze, what’s the difference between a Game server and an app server?? enlighten me plzzz
Hi reyanthonyrenacia,
Going the app server route actually opens up the functionality enough to create the proper modules for most any game server set up. While going strictly game server would have limited development to specific game related functionality only.
Since I am going to be using Coronium for a turn based game in the near future, there will be modules available that can enhance the Coronium server, basically turning it into a game server.
The major difference is speed. Coronium is not meant for FPS or games that require near real-time processing. Coronium is based on a message protocol, and while it is pretty fast, just can’t provide that type of raw throughput. It will be best for turn-based games that require storage mechanics between turns.
This thread here http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/43421-coronium-cloud-platform/ is following the active development, so be sure to add your comments and suggestions.
If would like to play around with an instance, let me know.
Cheers.
Looks fantastic, for now I am riding on Kerem’s progress but would love to join as soon as I finish my current stuff. Have a great week end
@atanas Let me know. I realized the other day that you had wanted in a while back, so my apologies for not getting back to you sooner. Kerem might be the Coronium “guru” soon, so he’s a good one to follow. 
Cheers.
Definitely would want IN, but dont want to use your testing slots while I cant dedicate enough time to it. Hopefully next week. Kerem’s been great at letting us know the progress
Hey, you guys are just too nice. I’m just like a kid in a candy (can I still use the word without being sued? store.
Its great to work work with Coronium. I still have to learn more about the core Coronium features. So far I’ve been toying around with the MySQL integration and I am more than impressed. Floored is more like it. It is unbelievable how much time and headache it saves you if you used the traditional route of writing PHP code which executed an SQL statement and returned JSON which you downloaded in your app and decoded etc. Coronium is gold.
@develephant is certainly onto something real big here. Thank you very much for putting in all this effort. It is much appreciated.
Well, a group of us is working on a turn based MP game for almost a year now. We were considering parse or photon, but decided to go with parse because photon is far too expensive for a small indie developers.
Parse basically offers all we need, from custom game logic on their servers, to cloud storage, leaderboards, etc.
I can only speak for myself, but I would love to use something like parse but in Lua lang. That service would have to provide for custom code at least for us to switch.
Anyway, Corona Cloud should have been all that, but they dropped it. I really hope you make something out of your project, but I’m just looking what’s right for me. And that would be great for me, and for my team as well
@c0ppo Please feel free to leave your “wishlist” in the Coronium Google group. At the very least I’ll try to provide a tutorial for it. More specifically though I can get you a test instance if you want to play with the cloud code and storage features. If you’re slightly interested in using it in your project, I’ll be happy to help in any way.
Thanks for the feedback.
Cheers.
I’ve already joined. And I’m gonna contact you via pm here in about 20-30mins about my project, since cornium seems like an ideal platform in my case. Parse is excellent, but not so easy to get everything working the way I want it to
FWIW - Apache HTTPD supports using Lua as a language, too.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_lua.html
I use it for my game server. I do everything in Lua server side. Uses MOD_DBD - so you can use any datastore.
Basically, if you can do it on Apache HTTPD, you can do it with mod_lua.
What’s really cool about this is since its httpd, you can throw your game server onto Heroku.
I run httpd locally with mysql under it - I use Lua Glider as my editor; and have the server files in the same editor.
I can use local file storage, etc.
Just thought I’d offer this up - Coronium could be a really nice object library to run under httpd if you saw fit. It’s a heck of a lot easier than forklifting this from scratch.
The Coronium object could abstract from the storage and the presentation layer; rendering results in JSON (what I do, personally) or hand it to a view controller.
In apache, the flow happens in a function call “handle” that passes the request object in. You output to it (versus print), and return a status OK.
I do this today, now. Want to use your LUA code as REST server? See mod_rewrite.
RewriteRule ^/api.\*$ /api/handler.lua?%{QUERY\_STRING} [L]
Here’s what the code looks like. My implementation is much more complex, but you get an idea of how easy it is… and more importantly, flexible. You get Apache HTTPD + Lua. The rest is libraries.
function handle(req) -- Do with the request object as you see fit here -- such as lfs = require("lfs") md5 = require("md5") zip = require("zip") stringx = require("string\_ext") json = require("json\_pure") https = require("https") ssl = require("ssl") smtp = require("socket.smtp") ltn12 = require("ltn12") socket = require("socket") local responseData = {} responseData.verifyIwork = "Hello World!" if req.method=='GET' then responseData.value = 5 responseData.detail = {value=6, name="joe"} elseif req.method=='POST' then -- send to your data storage class here elseif req.method=='PUT' then -- take action on PUT method elseif req.method=='DELETE' then -- take action on DELETE method end req:puts( json:encode(responseData) ) return apache2.OK end
It has it’s quirks, since it’s a (relatively) new Apache HTTPD feature - but building on top of Apache HTTPD is likely to go a long way.
You can also do things like this:
local myfunction function myfunction(sTemp) return sTemp .. " altered" end function handle(req) local responseData = {} responseData.verifyIwork = "Hello World!" if req.method=='GET' then responseData.value = 5 responseData.detail = {value=6, name="joe"} responseData.fromFunction = myfunction("testing") end req:puts( json:encode(responseData) ) return apache2.OK end@marble68 mod_lua was a almost a first choice, but I spent some time researching and the nginx implementation of Lua is production ready and much simpler IMHO.
But you are correct that the libraries are what will make it interesting.
Cheers.
So why not OpenResty?
Of course OpenResty.
Coronium is more focused on being a library and server configuration that will give you the same power of something like Parse. The other aspect is integrating systems like MySQL and PHP. Of course Coronium gives the developer the power to use it without API restrictions, and allow for much more flexibility.
The push server, which is forthcoming, will be using PHP_GCM and easyapns as part of the stack. The Coronium library will unify all of the pieces and make it very simple to have a powerful Lua application stack matched with a client side module.
The base stack will be open sourced as well.
Best.
I’ve joined the google group because I’m very interested to see it in action and potentially contribute. I have some libs done that once I’m done with this project, I could potentially adapt into Coronium.