diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 03b4d4e35..99e9c6e27 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -1,17 +1,26 @@
 name: "release"
 on:
   push:
-    tags:
-      - '*'
+    tags: # Will upload to luarocks.org
+      - "*"
+  pull_request: # Will test a local install without uploading to luarocks.org
+   paths:
+    - 'contrib/*.rockspec'
+    - .github/workflows/release.yml
+  
 jobs:
   luarocks-upload:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: nvim-neorocks/luarocks-tag-release@v2.2.0
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: nvim-neorocks/luarocks-tag-release@v5
         env:
           LUAROCKS_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.LUAROCKS_API_KEY }}
         with:
+          name: nvim-treesitter
+          version: 0.1
+          license: apache 2
           detailed_description: |
             The goal of nvim-treesitter is both to provide a simple and easy way to use the interface for tree-sitter in Neovim
             and to provide some basic functionality such as highlighting based on it.
-          build_type: "make"
+          template: contrib/nvim-treesitter-luarocks.template
diff --git a/contrib/nvim-treesitter-luarocks.template b/contrib/nvim-treesitter-luarocks.template
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3bb15d3b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/nvim-treesitter-luarocks.template
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+local git_ref = '$git_ref'
+local modrev = '$modrev'
+local specrev = '-1'
+
+local repo_url = '$repo_url'
+
+rockspec_format = '3.0'
+package = '$package'
+version = modrev .. specrev
+
+description = {
+  summary = 'Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer',
+  detailed = $detailed_description,
+  labels = { 'neovim' },
+  homepage = 'https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter',
+  license = 'Apache-2.0',
+}
+
+dependencies = {
+  'lua >= 5.1',
+}
+
+-- source = file:///.
+
+source = {
+  url = repo_url .. '/archive/' .. git_ref .. '.zip',
+  dir = '$repo_name-' .. '$archive_dir_suffix',
+}
+
+build = {
+  type = 'make',
+  build_pass = false,
+  install_variables = {
+    INST_PREFIX='$(PREFIX)',
+    INST_BINDIR='$(BINDIR)',
+    INST_LIBDIR='$(LIBDIR)',
+    INST_LUADIR='$(LUADIR)',
+    INST_CONFDIR='$(CONFDIR)',
+  },
+  copy_directories = {
+    'autoload',
+    'plugin',
+    'queries'
+  }
+}
diff --git a/nvim-treesitter-scm-1.rockspec b/contrib/nvim-treesitter-scm-1.rockspec
similarity index 100%
rename from nvim-treesitter-scm-1.rockspec
rename to contrib/nvim-treesitter-scm-1.rockspec