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Ruby on Rails vs Sinatra vs Hanami

A side-by-side look at how actively Ruby on Rails, Sinatra and Hanami are developed on GitHub — popularity, contributor base, commit activity and how quickly issues and pull requests move.

What the numbers say

• Ruby on Rails is the most-starred of the 3, with 59k stars — about 9.2× Hanami's 6.4k.
• Over the 52 weeks to the snapshot, Ruby on Rails recorded the most commits (3.7k), against 30 for Sinatra.
• Ruby on Rails has closed or merged the most pull requests in its lifetime: 38k.
• Relative to its popularity, Sinatra carries the lightest open-issue load: 2.2 open issues per 1,000 stars, versus 8.2 for Ruby on Rails.
• Sinatra had gone 72 days without a push at the time of the snapshot.

Head-to-head

Snapshot taken 30 September 2026. Refresh with live data

The wide bar is that repository’s share of the largest value in its own row — half the length means half the number. The thin gauge beneath it is the same row rescaled from its smallest value to its largest, which makes a close gap such as 61k against 59k visible; on that gauge the row’s lowest value always sits at zero however big it is, so read it as a spread and never as a quantity. Bars compare repositories with each other and never one metric against another. Colour identifies the repository, matching the dot beside its name. On the two issue rows a longer bar means more open work, which is usually the opposite of better. The highlighted cell is the highest value in a row. “Active / Slowing / Dormant” is a simple heuristic from how recently code was pushed and open issues per star — a starting point, not a verdict. Stars measure popularity, not quality.

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