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And there's also Laravel, which is partially built on Symfony and generally maps a little closer to what is possible in Rails.

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One of the things I love about Symfony2 (other than the framework) are the following bundles:

-FOSUser -FOSRest -Sonata Admin

In a few minutes, I have a multi-user website, complete with REST server and a user administration interface. As someone without a lot of hands-on experience with Laravel, is there a similar combo of Laravel bundles that can get me up and running with a multi-user website?

Laravel has built-in auth support and a bunch of good Composer packages that can add more features. It's also got RESTful and resourceful controllers built in and a very awesome routing system. You can use any admin/cms package, but this one I made specifically for Laravel and the Eloquent ORM:

https://github.com/FrozenNode/Laravel-Administrator

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