I agree. I do rails stuff, and recently I've been doing some laravel stuff. Ruby+Rails is just so much better than anything PHP could offer. Rails feels much more ergonomic than laravel, and the syntax is much cleaner.

It feels like Rails developers are just absent from all these online discussions because they're too busy living happy, fulfilling lives.

Every time I have to work with another technology, I end up wishing it could be done like Rails.

Rails's drawback is that with enough before/after filters it feels like logic is hard to grasp, but it still turns out to be better than any alternative I could of. The laravel middleware approach is much more cumbersome and less powerful.