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+# locator
+
+A <strike>service</strike> module locator for use with Lapis.
+(Which doesn't use anythng Lapis-specific, so you could use it elsewhere.)
+
+Installation:
+
+1. subtree this project into the root of your project.
+2. `echo 'return require((...) .. ".init")' > locator.lua` (and make sure it is
+   committed!)
+3. Make `locator_config.moon` using the configuration format specified below.
+4. `echo 'return require("locator").models' > models.moon` (to replace the
+   models autoloader provided with Lapis with our autoloader)
+
+## Usages
+
+1. `autoload`: A function to allow automatically loading modules when accessing
+   a table.
+2. Implicit autoloaders: The module itself is an autoloader, and can be called
+   to create a specialized autoloader that checks directories local to where
+   your code is before other paths.
+3. `make_migrations`: A function to make integrating migrations tables from
+   multiple Lapis projects into one to streamline applying migrations.
+
+### `autoload` function
+
+The core functionality is based on the `autoload` function, which returns a
+table with `__call` and `__index` metamethods, allowing things like:
+
+```
+locator = require "locator"
+
+-- the module itself is an autoloader, so you can grab anything in a
+-- sub-directory like so:
+import Users, Posts from locator.models -- looks in 'models' directory first
+
+-- you can also use it (locator.models) as a function to require from models
+Model = locator.models "Model" -- will look for 'models.Model' (& config paths)
+```
+
+You can create autoloaders yourself: `models = locator.autoload "models"`
+
+### Implicit autoloaders
+
+In sub-applications, make requiring things easier by acting like everything is
+in your repository's root:
+
+```
+-- returns an autoloader that will try to require from wherever your
+--  sub-application is installed before other paths
+locate = require("locator")(...)
+
+util = locate "util" -- will grab *our* utility functions
+```
+
+Grab a table of all views: `views = locator.views` (will create an autoloader
+  when you try to access it)
+
+### `make_migrations` function
+
+In your migrations, do something like this:
+
+```
+import make_migrations from require "locator"
+import create_table, types from require "lapis.db.schema"
+
+return make_migrations {
+  [1518418142]: =>
+    create_table "articles", {
+      {"id", types.serial primary_key: true}
+      {"title", types.text unique: true}
+      {"content", types.text}
+    }
+}
+```
+
+Whatever migrations you have defined will be combined with migrations specified
+in sub-applications added to `locator_config`, subject to conditions in the
+config file.
+
+## Config
+
+Example configuration:
+
+```
+{
+  {
+    path: "applications.users" -- there is a sub-application at this location
+    migrations: {after: 1518414112} -- don't run this migration or any before it
+  }
+  {
+    path: "utility" -- another sub-application is here
+  }
+}
+```
+
+The only required value per item in the configuration is `path`, formatted with
+periods as a directory-separator. Currently, the only point of specifying a
+migrations table is to specify a migration ID to ignore it and every migration
+before it within that sub-application.
+
+Without the configuration file, locator will crash with an error, and without
+a path specified, locator doesn't know where else to look for files to require,
+so it is very essential.
diff --git a/example.locator_config.moon b/example.locator_config.moon
index 77ed5b2..923d194 100644
--- a/example.locator_config.moon
+++ b/example.locator_config.moon
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   {
-    path: "applications.users" -- there is a sub-application at this location relative to the repository's root
-    migrations: {after: 1518414112} -- don't run any migrations earlier than this one
+    path: "applications.users" -- there is a sub-application at this location
+    migrations: {after: 1518414112} -- don't run this migration or any before it
   }
   {
     path: "utility" -- another sub-application is here
diff --git a/init.moon b/init.moon
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--- a/init.moon
+++ b/init.moon
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ autoload = (path, tab={}) ->
 
 -- pass your migrations, it returns them + all sub-application migrations
 --  (legacy) see example config for how to specify to not include early migrations
-migrations = (app_migrations={}) ->
+make_migrations = (app_migrations={}) ->
   for item in *config
     ok, migrations = pcall -> require "#{item.path}.migrations"
     if ok
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ migrations = (app_migrations={}) ->
 -- return access to autoload and migrations functions,
 --  and metamethods for getting autoloaders
 return setmetatable {
-  :autoload, :migrations
+  :autoload, :make_migrations
 }, {
   __call: (t, here) ->
     if "init" == here\sub -4