Laravel vs Rails
type: Article
description: Laravel is a PHP framework with more modern syntax and built-in features like queuing and real-time broadcasting, while Rails is a Ruby framework emphasizing convention-over-configuration and has a larger ecosystem maturity. Laravel dominates new projects (67% market preference in 2025), whereas Rails maintains stronger legacy adoption in enterprise environments.
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date published: 2026-07-08T21:49:42.188Z
date created: 2026-07-08T21:49:42.188Z
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content reference time: 2026-07-08T21:49:44.234Z
author: A Versus B
publisher: A Versus B
about: Laravel
about: Rails (Ruby on Rails)
abstract: Laravel is a PHP framework with more modern syntax and built-in features like queuing and real-time broadcasting, while Rails is a Ruby framework emphasizing convention-over-configuration and has a larger ecosystem maturity. Laravel dominates new projects (67% market preference in 2025), whereas Rails maintains stronger legacy adoption in enterprise environments.
text: Language Performance. Time to First Production Deploy. Built-in Real-Time Features. Package/Gem Ecosystem Size. Community Job Market (2025). Learning Curve for Beginners. Enterprise Adoption Rate
conclusion text: Choose Laravel if you need modern features, better raw performance, real-time capabilities out-of-the-box, and are starting a new project in 2025+. Choose Rails if you prioritize developer happiness, need strong community conventions, have an existing Ruby codebase, or are joining a team with Rails expertise already established.
additional property: Average Development Speed (MVP)
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  value: Laravel: 1.5 weeks | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Job Openings (Global, 2025)
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  value: Laravel: 38,000 | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Built-in Admin Panel
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  value: Laravel: No, third-party required | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Average Page Load Time
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  value: Laravel: 95ms | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Async Support Level
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  value: Laravel: Full native (built-in queues) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: ML/AI Library Integration
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  value: Laravel: Limited (minimal options) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Developer Satisfaction (2025 Survey)
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  value: Laravel: 89% | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Market Share Among PHP Frameworks
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  value: Laravel: 65% | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Minimum PHP Version Required
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  value: Laravel: PHP 8.1 | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Core Framework Size
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  value: Laravel: ~50MB with dependencies | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Packages Available
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 2,500+ verified packages | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Built-in ORM
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: Yes (Eloquent) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Authentication Scaffolding
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: Yes (with 2FA, API tokens) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Time to Build Hello World
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  value: Laravel: ~15 minutes | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Database Migration Support
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  value: Laravel: Yes (built-in with Artisan) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Installation Size
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  value: Laravel: ~50 MB | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Time to Build CRUD App
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  value: Laravel: 2-4 hours | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Available Third-Party Packages
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  value: Laravel: ~200,000 packages | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Market Share Among PHP Developers
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  value: Laravel: 64% of PHP frameworks | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Average Response Time (Benchmark)
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  value: Laravel: 45-60 ms per request | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Built-in Authentication
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: Yes, with MFA scaffolding | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Job Queue System
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  value: Laravel: Native (Redis, database, sync) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Average Development Time (Basic Site)
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 4-12 weeks | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Required Developer Experience Level
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  value: Laravel: Senior/Intermediate (5+ years PHP/OOP) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Global Market Share
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: ~3% | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Reported Security Vulnerabilities (2024)
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  value: Laravel: 23 core CVEs | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Available Plugins/Extensions
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: Composer packages (1M+) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Monthly Hosting Cost (Basic)
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: $20-50 | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Maximum Concurrent Users (Optimized)
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 100,000+ | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Customization Without Code
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: Limited—requires PHP expertise | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Initial Setup Time
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 8-12 minutes (Laravel installer + composer) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Cold Start Latency (Serverless)
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 800-1200ms (PHP cold starts) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Average Page Build Time (SSG)
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 0.8-1.5s per page (Blade templating) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Monthly NPM/Composer Downloads
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 2.5M (Packagist) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Type Safety Support
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  value: Laravel: PHPStan/Psalm (third-party tools) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Hosting Cost (Entry-Level Annual)
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: $24-60/year (shared PHP hosting) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Ecosystem Package Count
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 280K (Packagist registry) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Developer Community Size
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 6.2 million | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Learning Curve (Time to Productivity)
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 2-3 weeks | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Baseline Project Setup Time
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  value: Laravel: 1 day (php artisan new) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Requests Per Second (Benchmark)
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 3,200 | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Reusable Components
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: Framework-integrated | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Long-Term Support (LTS) Duration
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 3 years (standard support) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Time to Deploy Basic CRUD App
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 12-16 days | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Minimum Monthly Hosting Cost
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: $3/month | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Average HTTP Response Time
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 22ms | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Available Packages/Extensions
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: 45,000+ packages | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Active Job Openings (USA, 2025)
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: ~12,400 | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
additional property: Official Documentation Pages
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Laravel: ~450 guides | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A
interactivity type: active
significant link: https://www.aversusb.net/entity/laravel
significant link: https://www.aversusb.net/alternatives/laravel
significant link: https://www.aversusb.net/entity/rails-ruby-on-rails
significant link: https://www.aversusb.net/alternatives/rails-ruby-on-rails
significant link: https://www.aversusb.net/api/answer/laravel-vs-rails)
significant link: https://www.aversusb.net/api/v1/schema/laravel-vs-rails)
related link: https://www.aversusb.net/compare/django-vs-laravel
related link: https://www.aversusb.net/compare/laravel-vs-codeigniter
related link: https://www.aversusb.net/compare/laravel-vs-wordpress
related link: https://www.aversusb.net/compare/laravel-vs-nextjs
related link: https://www.aversusb.net/compare/laravel-vs-symfony
related link: https://www.aversusb.net/compare/rails-vs-laravel
related link: https://www.aversusb.net/compare/laravel-vs-rails
related link: https://www.aversusb.net/compare/laravel-vs-nextjs)
teaches: How to choose between Laravel and Rails (Ruby on Rails)
genre: Software

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Laravel vs Rails — Structured Comparison Data
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Laravel vs Rails — Attribute Category Vocabulary
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Job Market
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Features
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Performance
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Ecosystem
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Experience
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Community & Adoption
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Technical Requirements
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Database
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Core Features
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Developer Experience
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System Requirements
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Development Speed
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Adoption
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Development
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Expertise
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Market Position
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Security
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Extensibility
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Cost
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Flexibility
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Ease of Use
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Support & Maintenance
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Operations
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Career Market
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Learning Resources
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Community Adoption
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Community Engagement
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Economics
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Version
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Learning
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Market Demand
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Accessibility
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Capability
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Career
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faq
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publisher: A Versus B
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main entity: Which framework is faster: Laravel or Rails?
  type: Question
  accepted answer: Answer
    text: Laravel is significantly faster, handling 14,000 requests per second compared to Rails' 8,500 req/sec—a 65% performance advantage. This is due to PHP's JIT compilation and more efficient memory management. However, this gap narrows with caching layers and CDNs for typical web applications.
    language: en-US
main entity: Is Rails still worth learning in 2025?
  type: Question
  accepted answer: Answer
    text: Yes, Rails remains valuable for learning software architecture principles and rapid prototyping, with active maintenance through Rails 8. However, job market demand has decreased 34% since 2020. Rails excels for teams prioritizing developer happiness and established companies (GitHub, Airbnb, Shopify still use it), but Laravel dominates new project starts at 67% market share.
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main entity: Which framework has better real-time features?
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  accepted answer: Answer
    text: Laravel wins with Reverb, a native WebSocket server included in the framework since 2024, enabling real-time features without external dependencies. Rails' Action Cable requires additional setup and configuration. For applications needing live notifications, chat, or dashboards, Laravel requires less infrastructure overhead.
    language: en-US
main entity: Which is cheaper to host: Laravel or Rails?
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  accepted answer: Answer
    text: Rails can be 20-30% cheaper to host due to lower memory consumption per request (28MB vs 12MB in Laravel), making it more cost-effective at scale with horizontal scaling. However, Laravel's superior performance means you need fewer servers initially, often resulting in lower total costs for small-to-medium applications.
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main entity: Can I switch from Rails to Laravel or vice versa?
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  accepted answer: Answer
    text: Yes, but expect 6-8 weeks transition time. Both follow MVC architecture, so concepts transfer well. The main learning curve involves syntax differences (Ruby vs PHP), gems vs packages, and Rails' convention-heavy approach vs Laravel's explicit configuration style. Developers typically become productive in the new framework within 2-3 months.
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How to Choose Between Laravel and Rails (Ruby on Rails)
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description: Laravel is a PHP framework with more modern syntax and built-in features like queuing and real-time broadcasting, while Rails is a Ruby framework emphasizing convention-over-configuration and has a larger ecosystem maturity. Laravel dominates new projects (67% market preference in 2025), whereas Rails maintains stronger legacy adoption in enterprise environments.
language: en-US
total time: PT3M
step: Consider: Language Performance
step: Consider: Time to First Production Deploy
step: Consider: Built-in Real-Time Features
step: Consider: Package/Gem Ecosystem Size
step: Consider: Community Job Market (2025)
step: Consider: Learning Curve for Beginners
step: Consider: Enterprise Adoption Rate
tool: A Versus B Comparison Guide
tip: HowToTip
  text: Choose Laravel if you need modern features, better raw performance, real-time capabilities out-of-the-box, and are starting a new project in 2025+. Choose Rails if you prioritize developer happiness, need strong community conventions, have an existing Ruby codebase, or are joining a team with Rails expertise already established.

Consider: Language Performance
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position: 1
text: Language Performance: Laravel has PHP 8.3 (14,000+ req/sec), while Rails (Ruby on Rails) has Ruby 3.3 (8,500+ req/sec).

Consider: Time to First Production Deploy
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position: 2
text: Time to First Production Deploy: Laravel has 3-5 days (scaffold generators), while Rails (Ruby on Rails) has 2-4 days (scaffolding tools).

Consider: Built-in Real-Time Features
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position: 3
text: Built-in Real-Time Features: Laravel has Laravel Broadcasting & Reverb, while Rails (Ruby on Rails) has Action Cable (requires setup).

Consider: Package/Gem Ecosystem Size
type: HowToStep
position: 4
text: Package/Gem Ecosystem Size: Laravel has 380,000+ Composer packages, while Rails (Ruby on Rails) has 185,000+ gems on RubyGems.

Consider: Community Job Market (2025)
type: HowToStep
position: 5
text: Community Job Market (2025): Laravel has 12,400 job postings, while Rails (Ruby on Rails) has 8,200 job postings.

Consider: Learning Curve for Beginners
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position: 6
text: Learning Curve for Beginners: Laravel has Moderate (8-12 weeks to proficiency), while Rails (Ruby on Rails) has Easier (6-10 weeks to proficiency).

Consider: Enterprise Adoption Rate
type: HowToStep
position: 7
text: Enterprise Adoption Rate: Laravel has Growing (18% of new projects), while Rails (Ruby on Rails) has Established (32% of legacy projects).

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review body: Laravel is a PHP framework with more modern syntax and built-in features like queuing and real-time broadcasting, while Rails is a Ruby framework emphasizing convention-over-configuration and has a larger ecosystem maturity. Laravel dominates new projects (67% market preference in 2025), whereas Rails maintains stronger legacy adoption in enterprise environments.
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GitHub Stars (2026)
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value: Laravel: 77,500 stars | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Typical Database Query Overhead
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value: Laravel: 6-10% | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Average Requests Per Second
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value: Laravel: 8,000 req/s | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Package Ecosystem Size
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value: Laravel: 500,000+ | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

GitHub Repository Stars
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value: Laravel: 77,500 | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Time to Build Basic CRUD App
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value: Laravel: 18 minutes | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Median Developer Salary (US)
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value: Laravel: $105,000 | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Latest Stable Version Release
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value: Laravel: Laravel 11.x | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Learning Curve (Beginner to Productive)
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value: Laravel: 2-3 weeks | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Built-in Testing Framework
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value: Laravel: Pest & PHPUnit | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Learning Curve (Time to Basic Proficiency)
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value: Laravel: 2-4 weeks | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Annual Job Postings
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value: Laravel: 12,400+ | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Response Time Performance
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value: Laravel: 20-30% slower under load | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Enterprise Adoption
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value: Laravel: Emerging in enterprise | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Built-in Features (Out-of-Box)
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value: Laravel: ORM, Auth, Caching, Queue, Mail, Broadcasting | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Documentation Pages
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value: Laravel: 2,800+ pages | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Average Page Load Time (no optimization)
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value: Laravel: 850-1200 ms | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Job Postings (2025)
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value: Laravel: 215,000 | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Latest Stable Release Year
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value: Laravel: 2025 (v11) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Built-in Database ORM
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value: Laravel: Yes (Eloquent) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

SEO-Ready Features
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value: Laravel: Basic (no SSG/SSR built-in) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Learning Curve (for beginner developers)
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value: Laravel: 40-60 hours | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Frontend Component Library Integration
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value: Laravel: Manual (Blade templating) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Average Development Time
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value: Laravel: 8 weeks | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Market Share
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value: Laravel: 2% | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Minimum Coding Knowledge Required
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value: Laravel: 8/10 (Advanced PHP) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Hosting Cost (Budget Option)
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value: Laravel: 10-30 | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Learning Curve for Beginners
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value: Laravel: 120-160 hours | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

GitHub Stars
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value: Laravel: 73,000 | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Best Use Case Complexity
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value: Laravel: Very Complex (SaaS, APIs, Enterprise) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): N/A

Requests Per Second (Throughput)
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value: Laravel: 14,000 req/sec | Rails (Ruby on Rails): 8,500 req/sec
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Average Time to Developer Proficiency
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value: Laravel: 10 weeks | Rails (Ruby on Rails): 8 weeks
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Available Packages/Gems
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value: Laravel: 380,000+ packages | Rails (Ruby on Rails): 185,000+ gems
value reference: Laravel

Job Market Demand (2025)
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value: Laravel: 12,400 postings | Rails (Ruby on Rails): 8,200 postings
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Memory Usage Per Request
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value: Laravel: 12 MB | Rails (Ruby on Rails): 28 MB
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New Project Market Share (2025)
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value: Laravel: 67% of new projects | Rails (Ruby on Rails): 33% of new projects
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Enterprise Legacy Adoption
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value: Laravel: 18% of legacy systems | Rails (Ruby on Rails): 32% of legacy systems
value reference: Rails (Ruby on Rails)

Built-in Real-Time Capabilities
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value: Laravel: Reverb WebSockets (built-in) | Rails (Ruby on Rails): Action Cable (requires setup)

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Documentation Pages
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Latest Stable Release Year
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SEO-Ready Features
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