This is a survey at best. It jumps to strange or unsupported conclusions like "the irb shell is not a true REPL" and "Rails is probably the best way to go about

This is a survey at best. It jumps to strange or unsupported conclusions like "the irb shell is not a true REPL" and "Rails is probably the best way to go about a complex web application", and impressive WTFs like "Perhaps to get the best of both worlds, I should investigate calling Lisp code from Rails?" However it does show step by step how to deploy Hunchentoot on Heroku. This builds on https://github.com/mtravers/heroku-buildpack-cl https://github.com/mtravers/heroku-buildpack-cl and https://github.com/jsmpereira/heroku-buildpack-cl https://github.com/jsmpereira/heroku-buildpack-cl, and includes Hunchentoot sample code similar to https://zaries.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/lisp-web-server-from-scratch-using-hunchentoot-and-nginx/ https://zaries.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/lisp-web-server-from... . It is this reliance on the frameworks and tutorials of others that makes a final bullet point ring hollow: "Lisp lacks a true community, the kind that powerfully drives Rails forward, resulting in great libraries, superb documentation and tutorials aplenty." Skip the commentary, follow the code.