Hi everybody,
For those who plan to do some serious scripting in the future, it's always handy to have some libraries under your belt. Octane only provides it's own API, it doesn't have all the necessary functionality.
There's this nice ecosystem called LuaRocks (http://luarocks.org/). It provides a collection of lua libraries (called rocks) and handy tools to search, install and remove libraries. For those who code ruby or perl, it's similar to ruby gems or perl's cpan although not that extensive.
A few rocks that may prove very useful while scripting for Octane: luafilesystem, lcomplex, lmathx, lua-path and luanum.
happy hacking,
Thomas