Greg Donald : Author, software maker, RC airplane enthusiast, bibliophile.

Dogfooding My Own Raku MVC Web Framework

July 11, 2026

A few weeks ago I blog'd about shipping behave.dev, the first Raku app I ever put into production. This blog post is an even bigger deal to me personally. The site you are reading right now, gregdonald.com, no longer runs on Ruby on Rails. It runs on a new MVC web framework that I created. The web framework, the ORM, and the admin are all my own Raku distributions, and the only honest way to trust a library you created is to run something you care about on top of it.

raku (19) orm (2) mvc (2) admin (1)

Shipping My First Raku App

May 25, 2026

Shipping My First Raku App: behave.dev

I just released behave.dev into production. It's the homepage for BDD::Behave, my behavior-driven testing framework for Raku. It's the first Raku application I've ever pushed to production. I've been deploying web apps since 1996, so the moving parts of putting a process behind a reverse proxy on a Linux box are familiar territory. What I had to figure out this time was where the Raku-shaped pieces slot into that picture, and which of my usual configuration patterns transfered cleanly.