Rails has people who do it full time as well, AFAIK Shopify workers like Rafael Faranca and I'm sure there are quite a few others. Besides them Rails has an arm

Rails has people who do it full time as well, AFAIK Shopify workers like Rafael Faranca and I'm sure there are quite a few others. Besides them Rails has an army of volunteer committers, its one of the bigger open source framework communities, and the commit distribution is much healthier than Laravel's: Laravel looks like a one man show compared to Rails. As for all these packages - Ruby has equivalents. It's hard to say what should come included in the framework and how opinionated Rails should be - many people think its already too opinionated.