First: usually don't have wget on a Mac, so used curl to download lein. Have no idea what happened, got lein: line 110: lein: command not found and a JVM trace.
Followed the directions on the lein page, which worked out identically but somehow it worked this time. Now it's 2:23.
I'm still installing the heroku gem... it's 2:27.
Hmm, that went squibby. Think I need to redo it as root. Meanwhile, I signed up for a heroku account.
See I have to give Heroku my credit card number to install the mongo add-on (...), okay...
After screwing up the syntax for the configuration file, I now have a working (?) app. It doesn't seem to do anything though, the /welcome page says "Welcome to noir-mongo-heroku". Total time, starting from scratch, has been about 25 minutes if anyone is counting.
Anyhow, I'll figure this out and thanks for getting me started! I've been wanting to do something lispy and something JVMy for a while, and now I'm all set.