diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index 8bca91e101da..a6fbcd5a0beb 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ luassert,,,,,
 luasystem,,,,,
 luautf8,,,,,pstn
 luazip,,,,,
+lua-yajl,,,,,pstn
 luuid,,,,,
 luv,,,,,
 markdown,,,,,
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index f503219b6c0d..5adc23979393 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -1145,6 +1145,26 @@ luazip = buildLuarocksPackage {
     };
   };
 };
+lua-yajl = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "lua-yajl";
+  version = "2.0-1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = https://luarocks.org/lua-yajl-2.0-1.src.rock;
+    sha256 = "0bsm519vs53rchcdf8g96ygzdx2bz6pa4vffqlvc7ap49bg5np4f";
+  };
+  disabled = (luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ lua ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "http://github.com/brimworks/lua-yajl";
+    description = "Integrate the yajl JSON library with Lua.";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ pstn ];
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT/X11";
+    };
+  };
+};
 luuid = buildLuarocksPackage {
   pname = "luuid";
   version = "20120509-2";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
index a4c1c7fa324e..233503c2eca8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
@@ -235,6 +235,12 @@ with super;
     ];
   });
 
+  lua-yajl = super.lua-yajl.override({
+    buildInputs = [
+      pkgs.yajl
+    ];
+  });
+
   luuid = super.luuid.override(old: {
     externalDeps = [
       { name = "LIBUUID"; dep = pkgs.libuuid; }