The Rails Foundation kicks off with one million dollars

This is exciting news! Really looking forward to the future of Rails!

Edit: Hope to get an ecosystem similar to Laravel's with this!

Just curious, since I know nothing about Laravel. What things about the Laravel ecosystem are you talking about?

I know the Rails community has diminished somewhat in recent years. Are you talking about the people or tools/libraries?

Not the OP but officially sanctioned tools and libraries are exactly what I envy from Laravel: auth, search, payments, hosting, etc.

I'd say the Rails community has been a flat-line somewhat... but not diminished. Yes, it may not have been the hottest framework, but it's been rolling forward consistently and actively.

Basically what @clivestaples already said. If you go to the Laravel Website [1] and look through "Ecosystem" in the navigation - that's what I am missing from Rails. And of course a more active community.

[1] https://laravel.com/

This is great news for the Rails community! Looking forward to what this will bring.

Exciting! Let's see how this develops.