Hanami versus Rails (long term objective: see the reddit discussion and entry, in the body of this issue request about hanami HOT 3 CLOSED

Hanami offers great flexibility. I can't think of another Ruby app where I wouldn't use Hanami. Whether it's a web app or something else, it doesn't matter. It shines in every area. The performance is great and Hanami leads to a straightforward design.

You just have to start with it, then you will see how much fun it is to work with Hanami.

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I haven't been using Hanami for long and I mostly started, cause I found myself using dry-rb libraries in all my professional projects whenever possible. Their mix of functional programming with ruby just always spoke to me. Hanami being based on those libs, just seemed like an obvious thing to try out for me.

It offers a lot of the same that Rails does (MVC), but with vastly different approaches. Same same, but different as they say.

So far what I really like about it, is it's focus on being explicit, specially when it comes to dependencies and providers. Sure, you can do something simliar in Rails, since RoR is surprisingly flexible too, but Hanami comes with that packaged. DDD is possible in Rails, but often not convienent. Hanami is better at enforcing certain code style, yet remains flexible in a lot of other spaces.

Yes it is slower to build even simple stuff in Hanami, compared to Rails, but to be honest, in web development it is almost impossible to compete with Rails in building stuff fast. It is too convenient. Hanami does not have that, but it does not try to compete with Rails. It offers a different set of tools altogether.

If you know elixir and phoenix, building stuff with Hanami is sort of a bridge between RoR and Phoenix. Learning elixir knowing just ruby is super hard. Learning elixir (and functional programming), knowing ruby while using dry-rb and hanami, comes more naturally (to me at least).

I haven't had a chance to work on a professional project in Hanami yet, but I do something in it in my pet projects most days of the week and see a lot of potential in it. Besides, it is just fun :)

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@wuarmin and @krzykamil, thank you for responding here with your helpful words 😍

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