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It is impossible not to notice Ruby on Rails. It has had a huge effect both in and outside the Ruby community... Rails has become a standard to which even well-established tools are comparing themselves to. -- Martin Fowler
Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive and effective in their work. -- Bruce Perens
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects. -- John Webster
Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all. -- Minnie Driver
And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going. -- Bruce Catton
Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools. -- Craig Charles
Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel. -- Jim Ryun
I like to play women who blaze trails. -- Hilary Swank
When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails. -- Philipp Meyer
I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes. -- John Bercow
When I want to know your opinion, I'll consult your entrails. -- Rachel Caine
A quick puke, two rails of blow and she was solid. -- Carl Hiaasen
... only darkened trails of rain could paint your face upon a pane... -- John Geddes
The normal guardrails of healthy emotional boundaries were never constructed inside me. -- Merri Lisa Johnson
I'll flay Tigerstar! I'll scatter his entrails from here to Twolegplace!-Cloudtail -- Erin Hunter
Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love. -- Suzanne Collins
I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn. -- Marty Rubin
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair. -- Alan Watts
Chase a butterfly and you will discover the joys of wandering into uncharted trails. -- Vinita Kinra
Joy, oh joy. He'd rather have his entrails pulled out through his nostrils.' (Fang) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top. -- Anya Seton
From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails -- Steve Aylett
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run -- Herman Melville
There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person. -- Naomi Scott
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. -- Denis Diderot
He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul. -- Aldous Huxley
It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own. -- Dennis Weaver
Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us. -- Joyce Carol Oates
In the words of Ozzy Osbourne, I'm going off the rails on a crazy train. And crazy never felt so good. -- J.B. Salsbury
I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails. -- Dan Aykroyd
Then what's a synonym for woman?Entrails.You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?Milk. -- Osamu Dazai
When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period. -- James McCartney
I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails. -- Mary Boykin Chesnut
Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out. -- Johnny Isakson
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My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc. -- Thomas Kinkade
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. -- Edward Abbey
A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it. -- Paul Kriwaczek
In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train. -- Carrie Fisher
I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails... -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
I, cruel to Marks? I'm the one you should worry about. After a conversation with her, I usually walk away with my entrails dragging behind me. -- Lisa Kleypas
All this history...,' Danny says, then trails off. Lost in it. Feeling it connect. Realizing the weight of the world comes largely from its past. -- David Levithan
Once I blazed across the sky,Leaving trails of flame;I fell to earth, and here I lie -Who'll help me up again?-A Shooting Star -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell. -- Graham Nelson
The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone off the rails. -- Boris Pasternak
The way 'Showgirls' was presented to me, it sounded like an interesting project, and it kind of just went off the rails as we were doing it. -- Kyle MacLachlan
The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define. -- Fernando Pessoa
You were chased here by darkness. Listen to the curve of the hills, the guttering voice. The way to anywhere leads through humiliation. There are only animal trails. -- Tim Lilburn
We should be used to it, Tatiana reasonsThere have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether they were satin ribbons or iron rails. -- Sarah Miller
That's what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events. -- William Faulkner
I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin' all these years is changin' it up. -- Les Claypool
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I'm not really fond of the trails left in the sky and a lot of chemicals that are being pumped through factories and even in the clothes we wear. -- Shailene Woodley
The way I'd put it, said Makin, is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace. -- Mark Lawrence
And the wind blows, the dust clouds darken the desert blue, pale sand and red dust drift across the asphalt trails and tumbleweeds fill the arroyos. Good-bye, come again. (p. 34) -- Edward Abbey
Slept all night in the cedar grove,i was born to ramble, born to rove,some men are searchin' for the holy grail,but there ain't nothin' sweeterthan ridin' the rails -- Tom Waits
I'd heard theories. Destruction of forests had altered pressure zones. Global warming made for stronger storms. Chemtrails indicated government manipulation of the weather. God punished the family and neighbors of idolaters. -- Carl John X. Veraja
The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then. -- Neil Gaiman
I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks. -- Jonathan Tropper
She wanted to go inside. She wanted to go in, wanting it as we want to jump from balconies, as the glint of the rails tempts us when we hear the approaching train. -- Thomas Harris
I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet. -- Sally Hawkins
Thats it? I say. Those were your worst fears? Why do you only have four... My voice trails off. Only four fears.Oh I look over my shoulder at himthats why they call you- -- Veronica Roth
I wish I was a guy who could have pancakes and bacon and cheesy eggs, but I'd curl up and pass out. I gotta start healthy or I'll be off the rails all day. -- Donnie Wahlberg
All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc. -- Ray Comfort
I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats! -- Scott Lynch
With words we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories in symbols for others to follow. Ants deploy their pheromones, trails of chemical information; Theseus unwound Ariadne's thread. Now people leave paper trails. -- James Gleick
When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails; I let it go off the rails. -- Stuart Rose
My statement to Harris that his book contains much to admire is specious hyperbole. In The End of Faith, Harris rails against religious fundamentalism, which seems obvious, as well as against religious moderates, which seems intolerant. -- Nick Flynn
Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails. -- Paul Feig
Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out. -- Julian Fellowes
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. -- Emily Bronte
He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first. -- Mira Grant
If the thing bites down much harder I might wig out and demand beer... stay away from the phone, watch the red arrow... this typewriter is keeping me on my rails, without it I'd be completely adrift and weird. -- Hunter S. Thompson
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors. -- James Henry Breasted
Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There's something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants. -- Brendan I. Koerner
So would you like to join me for something to eat? (Jericho)As long as it doesn't involve the entrails of demons, I might be persuaded. (Delphine)Demon entrails have no appeal for me, either. Zeus's are another matter. (Jericho) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's 'free stuff,' too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the 'free stuff' that the government provides other people. -- Jennifer Granholm
Like most depressions that plague people who have been more fortunate than most, I was ashamed of mine because there appeared to me no convincing cause for it; I just felt as though I had come off the rails somewhere. -- Nick Hornby
Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book. -- J. Michael Straczynski
What is it that I especially find utterly unendurable? That I cannot cope with, that makes me choke and faint? Bad air! Bad air! The approach of some ill-constituted thing; that I have to smell the entrails of some ill-constituted soul! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails. -- Dana Rohrabacher
There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails. -- Adora Svitak
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of. -- Anita Brookner
He doesn't move a muscle except for his eyes that follow her path as though somehow he can see her contrails. His whole existence revolves around a girl who left his orbit, and he was the one who spun her off her axis. -- Kat Kruger
The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way. -- Steven Weber
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way! -- Herman Melville
There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails. -- Martin Compston
Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris. -- George Ayittey
I hate to break this to you, Jade, but you're more than pretty. You're beautiful. He kisses meAnd gorgeous. His lips travel down my neckAnd sexy. His mouth trails back up to my ear and his voice drops to just above a whisperAnd so. Damn. Hot. -- Allie Everhart
Ro trails his hands against the wall as he walks. The archivists look at him as he passes. Ro is good at irritating people; he'll find the one thing you don't want him to do, and do it every time. It's one of his many gifts. -- Margaret Stohl
Webster, as if he's done it every day of his life, as if he did it just the day before, trails his fingers from the small of Sheila's back to the nape of her neck.Sheila turns her head, Go slowly and be careful, she says. -- Anita Shreve
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable. -- Drew Houston
Yes ma'am, I said, Anna Celeste's party is Saturday, but I don't need a ride.... No ma'am. It's because Anna Celeste is my Sworn Enemy for Life and I'd rather go face-down in a plate of raw chicken entrails than go to her party. Plus I'm not invited.... -- Sheila Turnage
I am merely biding my time. (Stryder)For what? (Rowena)For the moment when I am out of this cell and am able to wreak havoc on the one who put me here. I'm going to pull out his innards through his nostrils and dance around his entrails. (Stryder) -- Kinley MacGregor
Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on--pigs' entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas, terrapins, catfish--anything that didn't bite you first. -- Shirley Abbott
It wasn't a pretty sunset. The colors were as expected: violet clouds, bright orange and pink underneath, against the pale blue sky. But the clouds were high cirrus, wispy, and crossed with the contrails of F-16s, a colorful glowing mess. I said, It looks like God barfed a rainbow. -- Jennifer Echols
I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story. -- Susan Orlean
But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence. -- Jeannette Walls
I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death. -- Tanith Lee
If the existence of Nuclear weapons has taught us anything it would simply be that just because we possess powerful technologies, it does not necessarily mean that we should use them. Unfortunately, we are currently on course to learn similarly grave lessons from other devastating technologies such Genetically Modified Foods, Chemtrails and HAARP. -- Gary Hopkins
Which is why you deal with demons. (Acheron)Who are even more pathetic than humans when you think about it. Personally, I'd rather play video games. Wouldn't it be great if we could suck the souls of the people we hated into the box, shoot them down and then dance on their entrails? (Jaden) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
So what are you doing around here? I ask, feeling all jittery, but this time it's in a good way.Oh, I was just in the area. he says vaguelyI thought I'd take Welly for a walk... He trails off and stuffs his hands in his pockets. Those butterflies are going crazy in there. -- Alexandra Potter
Who was this girl alone so late at nightin search of a faded cassette illusion to disembowel the clocks of time's intrusion? Those eyes belonged to the most beautiful maniac I've ever met. Our love is a vine of entrails that can follow any coffin anywhere, no matter how deep any gravedigger might travel. -- Nicholaus Patnaude
They say that you need to ride the rails for a while to understand the traveling blues. They're wrong. To understand the traveling blues you need to be locked down somewhere. In a cell. Or in the army. Someplace where you're caged. Someplace where smokestack lightning looks like a faraway beacon of impossible freedom. -- Lee Child
He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart. Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
The unnatural beast plummeted to the ground, vainly attempting to keep his entrails in and put out the fire that covered him. Morfyd spewed another spell at the retreating form and Hefaidd-Hen burst into pieces.Fearghus glanced at his sisterThat was a bit much, don't you think?She gave an innocent shrugI like to be certain. -- G.A. Aiken
Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.' -- Ann Romney
I don't want a knight in shining armor.I don't want a knight in scuffed armor.I want his helmet to have dents. I want my knight to be real, and dark and savage. I want my knight to be a survivor. Someone who's been tested and got through his trails. Not some pussy in gleaming metal. -- Belle Aurora
Death was a rodent that ate its way inch by inch through your entrails, chewed at your liver and stomach, severed tendon from organ, until finally, when you were along in the dark, it sat gorged and sleek next to your head, its eyes resting, its wet muzzle like a kiss, a promise whispered in your ear. -- James Lee Burke
Toad must have been very accustomed to traveling this way, balanced on the back rails of a rushing buggy, but Melena was not. She gripped the sides and white-knuckled the rails with her knapsack sandwiched between her knees. Hazel was clamped onto the roof, grinning like an alligator in the sun. And Toad lounged like a cat. -- M.L. LeGette
Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees. -- Edwin Way Teale
He felt something trickle down his face and he wiped it away irritably. When he looked at the back of his hand, he found trails of red. He had never cried in his life; in fact, he could not cry with no tear ducts. But now, at last, he was. He was crying tears of blood. For her. -- Phillip W. Simpson
Bears? Epaphroditus wrinkled his noseEveryone knows Prometheus was tormented by vultures. Every day they tore out his entrails, and every night he was miraculously healed, so that the ordeal was endlessly repeated.Martial laughedThe trainer who can induce vultures to attack on command will be able to name any price! I suspect we'll see a lot of bears today. -- Steven Saylor
When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd? -- Tom Stoppard
She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it. -- Ayn Rand
Vibrations caused by powerful turbines stirred Kathy from a dream centered around a funeral. Her eyes flicked open, face dry, and she had no idea where she was. In her dream, she saw crystalline silver spiders again, weaving their way through the graveyard, leaving trails of silver webs over corpses, binding them for some unknown purpose in the cold dark earth. -- Michael Offutt
All hands obeyed, and at once the eight or ten seamen who composed the crew, sprang to their respective stations at the spanker brails and outhaul, topsail sheets and halyards, the jib downhaul, and the topsail clewlines and buntlines. The young sailor gave a look to see that his orders were promptly and accurately obeyed, and then turned again to the owner. -- Alexandre Dumas
And believe me, darling, there's no man more faithful than a reformed playboy. They make far better husbands than men who haven't had time to sow their wild oats before they marry, so go off the rails at about forty-five because they suddenly realise that they've missed out on life and if they don't hurry up it's going to be too late. -- Sally Wentworth

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