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Using Common Lisp in production

When you make a standalone application intended as a command line tool you may want integration tests to exercise the application through the normal command line user interface.

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The easy-routes library makes it easy and fast to define Rails-like HTTP routes for Hunchentoot. It has the concept of decorators which are functions that form part of the request handling sequence but not part of the main request handler. Decorator functions are usually general functions which are applicable to many request handlers, for example, to set up a database connection before handling a request.

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There are a few options for building REST APIs available in frameworks, Hunchentoot derivatives or other web servers but I wanted to implement REST routes with the original Hunchentoot web server. I found three libraries that can do this: simple-routes, Froute and easy-routes.

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