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Rails Rumble: 92 Web Apps Created in 48 Hours
By xaby | October 1, 2007
On September 8th and 9th, over 100 teams of between 1 and 4 programmers and designers got together to compete in a 48 hour programming competition called the Rails Rumble
. The idea was to create the best web application possible in just 48 hours, start to finish. Teams were only allowed to create paper mockups of their design, database diagrams or do other preplanning before the competition started. No coding or designing until the 48 hours officially began.92 teams succeeded in completing full (or mostly full) applications. After a couple of weeks of peer judging, the winners were announced Friday night at the Ruby East conference keynote.
The Rails Rumble was modeled after the Rails Day competition, which ran last year and in 2005, but not this year. The main difference being that teams had an extra 24 hours for app creation during the Rumble. In my opinion, Rails Day was a bit more fun to watch due to their cool ’spectate’ app that let fans watch SVN commits in near real-time — though you have to be a real geek to think that’s fun to watch.
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