Heroku Buildpack for Common Lisp

A Buildpack that allows you to deploy Common Lisp applications on the Heroku infrastructure.

Status

• Working to first approximation.
• For a minimal example of use, see the example application.
• For a more complex example, see the WuWei demo site and source.

Notes

• The scripts bin/test-compile and bin/test-run simulate as far as possible the Heroku build and run environments on your local machine.
• Heroku does not have a persistent file system. Applications should use S3 for storage; ZS3 is a useful CL library for doing that.

Todos

• parameterizing/forking for other Lisp implementations and web servers (see Github forks)
• support for Heroku's database infrastructure (DONE -- see the example application).

Credits

• Heroku and their new Buildpack-capable stack
• QuickLisp library manager
• OpenMCL aka Clozure CL
• Portable AllegroServe

Mike Travers, mt@hyperphor.com