Thanking our silver sponsors, and Carolyn Cole

Welcome to week three of our 2026 sponsorship drive!

Progress from week two

We received two one-time individual contributions and one new monthly individual sponsor since our last update, bringing us another $760 closer to our goal for 2026. (I’m basing these estimates on monthly sponsors sticking with us for at least 12 months — we’ll do everything we can along the way to show how your support is helping!)

This puts us at $3.1k out of the additional $15k we’re looking to raise. Please continue to spread the word about our goals and our fundraising, every bit counts!

Q&A with Carolyn Cole

This week we’re lucky to have Carolyn Cole join us for a Q&A!

Carolyn works at Princeton University Libraries and is our community’s resident expert at porting Rails apps to Hanami. She gave a workshop on this topic at this year’s RubyConf, and her team’s orcid_princeton_hanami serves as a fantastic open source example of a real world Hanami app.

We continue to see great things from from Carolyn and her team, including this overview of porting a Rails app to plain Rack alongside Dry Monads and Rom. If any of this is your interest, be sure to follow their work! In the meantime, let’s hear from Carolyn herself.

Who are you, and what are you building?

I’m Carolyn Cole. I work at the Princeton University Libraries. I have been building software for the past 30 years. Libraries in general have become the stewards of information both physical and digital. My team focuses on preserving and making born digital data created by the researchers at Princeton University widely available.

What made you reach for Hanakai, and what does your stack look like today?

I have wanted to utilize functional Ruby, in the form of Dry ever since I saw a presentation at RubyConf (I cannot remember the year). However, I could not get any interest from team members at the time. After attending a workshop at RubyConf Chicago I was re-energized to try Hanami. I lobbied again to use Hanami and got the go ahead to convert one of our Rails applications into Hanami

What’s a moment building with Hanakai that made you think, “yes, this is why”?

The organization that Hanami provides to keep your logic out of your templates and actions made my new Hanami application easier to read than the existing Rails application. As we all know reading your code is a larger cost than creating it, so having more organization is a definite benefit.

What are you excited about for the future?

I am hoping to convert some more of our applications over to Hanami. We have a wizard controller that is over 200 lines long. I can’t wait to break that controller up into more meaningful pieces.

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Thank you Carolyn for sharing with us today!

Thank you to our silver sponsors

This week we’d like to think our returning silver sponsors, Honeybadger, FastRuby.io, and AppSignal, as well our new sponsor for 2026, SerpApi!

Honeybadger, FastRuby.io, and AppSignal are founding sponsors of Hanakai, and their initial support gave me the confidence to go ahead and make the space in my life to help us bring Hanami 2.3, Hanakai, and Hanami 3.0 into the world. And it means the world to see them return again for 2026. Thank you!

And we’re delighted to see SerpApi join as a brand new sponsor for 2026! We’d love to see some more businesses follow in their footsteps: learn more about our sponsorships here.

“Honeybadger has been monitoring Ruby apps since 2012, and we’ve always believed in giving back to the open source community that made our business possible. We’re proud to sponsor a framework and team that is working to make Ruby better for everyone. Hanami is leading the way.”

— Joshua Wood, Honeybadger

“At FastRuby we believe in the value of diverse and inclusive communities. With our yearly contribution to Hanami we are investing in a framework that brings positive change to our beloved Ruby ecosystem. We envision a future where projects like Hanami, Roda, Sinatra, Cuba, and Padrino push the boundaries of what’s possible in Ruby.”

— Ernesto Tagwerker, FastRuby.io

“At AppSignal, we believe in sustainable open-source software and are happy to contribute to Hanami’s development by enabling others to continue the great work they do. In turn, this allows us to keep providing APM services that smoothly integrate with Hanami. Everybody wins.”

— Roy Tomeij, AppSignal

“SerpApi is proud to sponsor open source community initiatives and support the continued development of the Hanakai projects. At SerpApi, we are Rubyists at heart and want to see our ecosystem grow.”

— Josef Strzibny, SerpApi

See you next week

You might’ve noticed this post arriving a week later than expected. That’s because I got sick! We run a small operation here at Hanakai; life things can get in the way sometimes. (This also goes to show just how much impact you’d have as a new sponsor).

Anyway, I’m back on deck, and now we’re back on track. You can look forward to two more posts before we wrap this up for this year. Next week we’ll bring you a final Q&A, celebrate our amazing individual sponsors, and share some exciting news for them as well as Hanakai fans everywhere.

We’ll see you next week! In the meantime, please keep sharing our posts and sponsorship options, we’d love to welcome some more sponsors before this drive is done and dusted.