A relatively small learning curve, easy to use, you're not locked in to doing things a specific way. Lots of community packages and support.

The open source community around Laravel is so large, there are packages that help you in almost everything and it is a buulletproof solution when it comes to time saving development tasks

Convention over configuration. A rails developer will be able to work on any rails project without a steep learning curve. Rails "magic" lets us focus more on delivering new features instead that the minutae.