Hello there 
PHP is okay, I “grew up” on it, it gets better with every update. More importantly Laravel looks really awesome, it is so nice to see Rails leak out into other languages (and vice versa).
That being said, I personally missed some of the language features that Ruby has, missed Bundler and the comnunity. But PHP has caught up, there is Composer, Tracy and Twig and other more or less excellent tools.
You know what? Don’t pay too much attention to the Ruby/Rails/PHP wars, it all comes down to your own experimentation and preferences. PHP is weird at times, but so is Ruby.
I really like Ruby’s dynamicity which enables you to do nice looking DSLs or plugins, PHP is more strict in this respect.
Ask more if you want. 