Getting Lua Rocks to work

[sulaimansuhas]

I want to write a plugin that communicates with an API, so I am using the lua-sockets library. Lua-sockets is only available through the luarocks. I have a rockspec file in the plugin directory. Whenever I start nvim I see this error:

Failed to run `config` for regpt

error loading module 'socket.core' from file '/opt/homebrew/lib/lua/5.4/socket/core.so':
^Idlopen(/opt/homebrew/lib/lua/5.4/socket/core.so, 0x0006): symbol not found in flat namespace '_luaL_prepbuffsize
'

# stacktrace:
  - /opt/homebrew/share/lua/5.4/socket.lua:12
  - /opt/homebrew/share/lua/5.4/socket/http.lua:10
  - ~/Dev/lua/nvim-plugins/regpt/lua/https/request.lua:2
  - ~/Dev/lua/nvim-plugins/regpt/lua/regpt.lua:3
  - ~/.config/nvim/init.lua:98 _in_ **config**
  - ~/.config/nvim/init.lua:68

It looks like the plugin is searched for in the lua5.4 directory first, which isn't compatible with nvim. I'm not sure what is going wrong here. Any help would be appreciated!