We use Laravel as our day to day PHP framework because of it's ease to use. Writing our applications goes a lot faster using Laravel. Easy cloud deployment to Heroku.

This framework has all you need to make PHP a clean and Object Oriented language at the same time that helps you to deliver an application with requirements for MVC software architecture design pattern with high success. It has a very big community, great documentation and learn resources and is very stable and powerful framework. It has great integration with mail services, has built-in tool for comman-line called Artisan, Incorporate ORM I say that Laravel framework is what keeps PHP on the top languages for back end web development.

One of the great things about Ruby on rails is that it is so easy to read other peoples code. I also love that there are so many great library is that you can plug-in to really enhance your code velocity.