🆚 Laravel vs. Ruby on Rails

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Ruby on Rails is twice as popular as Laravel.
🌎 Ruby on Rails is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
🌎 Laravel is more popular in Indonesia, Brazil, and Russia.

Laravel

Ruby on Rails

Type

Backend framework

About

Laravel is an open-source PHP backend framework that provides all features needed to build modern web applications such as routing, input validation, caching, queues, and file storage.

It includes an expressive templating engine, a database ORM with migrations and seeding, built-in user authentication and authorization, a command-line interface, and a unified API for various cache backends.

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack framework that includes everything needed to build database-driven web applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

It emphasizes a standardized folder structure and naming, follows DRY ("don't repeat yourself") and the "convention over configuration" principles, provides an Active Record ORM, a built-in asset pipeline for CSS and JavaScript preprocessing, and an integrated testing framework.

Headquarters

New York, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Website

laravel.com #2,213

rubyonrails.org #180,446

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Ruby on Rails backend framework is 1.8 times more popular than Laravel.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Ruby on Rails is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India, while Laravel is more popular in Indonesia, Brazil, and Russia.

United States

United Kingdom

India

Germany

Netherlands

Japan

Australia

France

Canada

Indonesia

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Bangladesh in the Backend Frameworks category.

🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Backend Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Ruby on Rails is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and business, while Laravel is more commonly used on Internet services, travel, and health sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Business

Fashion/Beauty

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Sports