Laravel vs. ROR
Laravel is no doubt an up and coming PHP framework, and the support which the community has shown towards it is simply astounding. The framework is till date the most powerful framework PHP has witnessed. The number of features packed into it are great.
Coming to Rails, I started Rails development a few months ago and so far I encountered more problems than I ever did with any PHP framework. The reason for this might be my not-so-thorough knowledge of Ruby and Rails, but then there is also the fact that if you want to develop Rails, then you need to follow the docs the way they are written. If you wish to stray, then you need to study Rails more and understand everything properly. Rails "Convention over Configuration" is, unlike any other framework, without any doubt the best feature.
Both the frameworks have their pros and cons. Instead I would like to highlight some similarities between the two:
- The structure of a Rails app or a Laravel app are very similar.
- Generators are present Rails by default. For Laravel, you can download a bundle called as bob, which will do the same thing as Rails.
- You have command line helpers in both of them.
- Community support is great and you can get your issues cleared within a day.