Laravel Vs Rails

It is very confusing for developers to decide which framework is best for their projects and choosing which one to learn can be a real challenge facing newbies to modern frameworks. After working in three ( django, laravel and rails - otherwise known as ruby on rails) frameworks, I am comparing these great frameworks on the basic of their motto, ease of learning, performance, strength & weakness of libraries and templates, support, future scope, job chances, cost and maintenance.

I am using both. Laravel is new PHP framework and Rails is been around many years. Laravel is using rails strategies to be like Rails. Rails has powerful community than Laravel because it's older than Laravel. Ruby is modern language and more object oriented than PHP. Object Oriented PHP was added only since PHP 5.

Let's break this down. To compare both we need to first compare PHP against Ruby. PHP is made for web and it's a web language. However Ruby isn't web specific. PHP is popular but being popular has many reasons. First it's easy to use, deploy and learn. Next, it's the best choice for beginners so they will stick with it forever. Also PHP is a web tempting engine itself, It doesn't need something like Blade or Laravel Collectives (which has been removed in Laravel 5.0) why should I use {{}} when I can use <?=?> with only one character difference, but again we are just seeing PHP is getting better which means good bye PHP frameworks. The source

With Ruby yes you do need a framework because Ruby isn't ONLY used for web development. Rails is just a magic, it's fast, powerful and older. With Laravel it's like your'e even writing more and more and there are so many objects that you don't need. Also it's always in sync with Symfony which means if Symfony decided to change something so little then Laravel has to change everything based on that little thing. For example, since Laravel 4 to Laravel 5 then from 5 to 5.1 directory structure has been massively changed and that annoys so many developers. Using namespases in Laravel is such a pain and I don't blame them it's a PHP thing. New doesn't always mean better even when it comes to Programming languages. Twitter is made by Rails and Facebook is made by yes PHP but not 100%! Why? Because Facebook is using HHVM which is completely different version of PHP and much faster.

If you go ahead and reinvent the wheel, after a few web project write your own library, then you will see how much it is faster to use your libraries rather than Laravel.Again you don't need framework when it comes to PHP. However, no one has built a fantastic framework such as Laravel. Working with is very pleasant and its community is larger. Also, framework is better when it comes to group work because everybody knows how to work with a well known framework.

I prefer both and therefore I like to stay within their both active communities. Rails has asset pipeline which simple says "I don't need you Gulp, NPM and bower or Webpack", even though you can use them if you want. Directory structure is simple and very nice.

Python is comparable to Ruby but I'm afraid not PHP. Surely Laravel is the best PHP framework out there and again awesomely was developed but Rails with Ruby are something else to use in back-end as well as front-end and I didn't choose one I have chosen both to work with and I think you need to answer this question if you work with both. Web framework rankings .

"Which one to choose – Ruby or PHP? It will really depends on your priorities and features that you find desirable in each language. Ruby is a powerful, flexible language with an excellent web framework in Rails. But it is difficult to learn and needs a higher level of technical skill, so good Ruby on Rails developers are harder to find and will therefore ask for higher compensation.

PHP is easier to learn and in much more widely used, though it is not as powerful as Ruby. And PHP is also custom-built for web development, though it’s not as good for general-purpose development."

Laravel:

Laravel's libraries are not as strong as django and rails but are sufficient for making any kind of website.

Also see Laravel framework architecture.

• Bundles and composer provide number of bundle modular packaging system and dependencies.

• Routing - The easiest to mange and abstract way of routing. It just makes everything hassle free and the abstraction provided takes out each and every complexity

• Eloquent ORM support - Another service provided to abstract and automate the model part. Relationships and mapping of database with our application with a simple convention over configuration technique

• Migrations - A way to version our database scripts in much elegant manner. No need to keep all the checks on migrations. A team working on a project can just pull the given migration and all is set and ready to go.

• Queue management - To abstract the unnecessary tasks and get them queued behind the scenes and make user response time much faster.

• Inhouse support for Redis. It can also be extended to memcached.

• Dependency Injection - Easy testing and automating dependency loading

• Artisan - Making command line apps in a moment

Learn laravel using laravel 5 tutorials.

Rails:

Ruby on Rails includes tools that make common development tasks easier "out-of-the-box", such as scaffolding that can automatically construct some of the models and views needed for a basic website. Also included are WEBrick, a simple Ruby web server that is distributed with Ruby, and Rake, a build system, distributed as a gem. Together with Ruby on Rails, these tools provide a basic development environment.

Active record: It plays a major role in rails applications. It is more magical than Eloquent ORM in laravel and models in django.

Shortcuts: Those people who come from other programming languages or frameworks consider it to be a magical framework due to a lot of shortcuts. Most of the things are predefined and you have to write only a few lines of code to make a complex application.

Auto routing: Some of the common functions on database table like create, edit and show are automatically defined. It means that we do not have to spend any time on simple work and we can spend longer on the complex parts of the project.

Command line: A lot of things can be done by command line like using rake. Rake is Ruby Make, a standalone Ruby utility that replaces the Unix utility 'make', and uses a 'Rakefile' and .rake files to build up a list of tasks. In Rails, Rake is used for common administration tasks, especially sophisticated ones that build off of each other.

The ActiveModelHelper module contains helper methods for quickly creating forms from objects that follow Active Model conventions, starting with Active Record models.

Conclusion:

You can take any of these frameworks according to your programming language and experience. If you are here to decide which one you should learn then my preference is for rails. It is hard to learn but very comfortable during application making. Rails will take time but it is not harder than laravel. And last if you are from PHP background or want to learn very fast then choose laravel.