Strong railroad profits show US economy growing

Strong earnings reports from two of the nation's biggest freight railroads show that the U.S. economy is continuing its long, slow recovery.

New York rail system suffers through brutal winter

When members of Congress met recently to discuss revitalizing passenger trains in the United States, they chose Grand Central Terminal, a majestic hub of New York's vaunted mass transit system. From a balcony above the main concourse, Mayor Michael Bloomberg told lawmakers he rides the subway every day and called high-speed passenger rail "the track to the future."

Schwarzenegger checks out China's high-speed rail

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is engaging in a little window-shopping of China's new high-speed train lines while peddling Californian exports and tourism in the world's second-largest economy.

Free programs for Amtrak riders

If you’ve ever ridden a train and wondered what was rolling by your window, Amtrak and the National Park Service (NPS) may be able to help. This summer, on-board volunteers are riding the rails, pointing out local landmarks and putting the countryside in context from Upstate New York to Southern California.

Neb. project may spot weak rails before derailment

In the midst of the miles-long coal trains crossing the Plains, scientific researchers are measuring how much the rails bend as fully loaded Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe cars pass.

The Denver Police Department has confirmed that a Pueblo man who fell during the Colorado Rockies' game on Tuesday died from his injuries. Witnesses say that 27-year old Robert Seamans was "attempting to slide down the staircase rails when he lost balance and fell over the rai …

Job growth, as Friday's jobs report will confirm, is anemic at best. The services sector of the economy has lagged the manufacturing sector so far in the recovery. And now manufacturing is softening.

Finally, the beta release of Rails 3.0 is here. A new chapter is about to open.

I applaud the growth of mass transit in this country. How I wish we had high-speed trains and dependable service.

A stroller with a baby inside was trapped in the doors of a CTA Red Line train. As the train pulled out, the child fell down onto the tracks. The child did not land on the electrified third rail.

A baby delivered in a train lavatory has survived tumbling down through the bottom of the carriage and onto the tracks.

The Rails Rumble 2008 took place over the weekend of October 18th. The 48 hour Rails competition resulted in 137 Ruby-on-Rails-based applications, all taken from concept to execution in 48 hours.

A disabled 62-year-old threw himself from his wheelchair and crawled to safety after it got stuck on a rail line as a train hurtled towards it.

A couple of months back, I was giving Dan Benjamin a hard time on Twitter, claiming that someone replaced his avatar with a caricature of Cabel Sasser (of Panic fame). Dan replied, with a link to the source his avatar, which was supplied by the gang responsible for Happy Webbies.

We're hearing this from multiple sources: After nearly two years of high profile scaling problems, Twitter is planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java (another solution is to stick with the Ruby language and move away from …

I've got you under my skin

I was at the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation this past Saturday, April 19 to deliver a presentation at the SDForum Third Annual Ruby Conference. The theme of the conference this year was "Using Ruby and Rails for Innovation and Creativity".

Think Ruby on Rails is cool? Think again. COBOL is a much better language than Ruby. COBOL on Cogs is the newest web applications framework to hit the scene. If you like Rails, COBOL on Cogs will blow you away.

For applications that run internally we use Ruby on Rail. Because we enjoy using it, its fast to develop with, straight forward to use and because we use it (i.e.

I resisted heading over to the RoR site and playing with 2.0 just long enough to seed this link.

A blog post from the Rails blog announcing the completion of Rails 2.0

Merb is an MVC framework like Ruby on Rails but unlike it has a simple and well organized core code. It's faster and easier to understand and extend.

I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn't meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom.

By far a lot has been written on comparing various content management systems or web application frame works. Apple with pears have been compared which never can be comparable, small dogs with large dogs have been compared which might be comparable.

Programming Exhilaration on Rails

Those who can't do, manage. I recognize the truth of that statement, even as it applies to me.

HostingRails.com

As I described in my previous article, my first experiences with Rails and blogging (about a year ago) were not all that pleasant.

This article is part one of the series about Rails Migrations and it will explain on a basic level how to use the Ruby on Rails migrations. 1. What are Migrations ?

Programming languages and tools are considered only for developers but smart companies have understood that in order to achieve best results they should not only care for business but for developers too.

Competitio.us is a very useful looking competitive intelligence service built in Ruby on Rails that launched today. It's a simple but powerful way to keep track of competing companies online.