Should You Use Ruby on Rails or Hanami?

Ruby on Rails is the most popular web framework in the Ruby ecosystem and has a large user base, ranging from freelancers to large established companies. With an active user community and wide-ranging documentation, it can be used to build everything from simple applications to complex web platforms.

That said, a new contestant is taking on Rails’ dominance for the full-stack Ruby framework title: Hanami. It is a fast, modular Ruby framework with improved performance and maintainability compared to Rails.

In this article, we'll explore the strengths and weaknesses of each framework in terms of performance, features, testing, and more. So whether you are looking to build a customer-facing web app, an internal tool, or a massively scalable API, you should leave being better informed about what to use for your next project.

Ruby on Rails is the most well-known Ruby web application development framework with a mission to enhance developer productivity (by making a bunch of assumptions about how apps should be built, often referred to as the "Rails way").

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