Comments on: 131 Rails Apps Launched This Past Weekend; You Get To Vote For The Best

By: RailsRumble 2008 Winners Announced

RailsRumble 2008 Winners Announced — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:43:40 +0000

[...] Take approximately 500 Rails coders with a weekend to spare, an awesome collection of prizes, and a stackload of Linode virtual servers and you end up with Rails Rumble – a significant annual contest to develop the best Rails application possible in just two days. 245,000 lines of code were written and, as TechCrunch reported, 131 Rails apps were launched! [...]

By: Hari Rajagopal

Hari Rajagopal — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:40:14 +0000

Scratching my own itch, My tool helps users engage with their contacts in their address book.

Our contacts have a wide range of interests that vary over time.
Needless to say, it is hard to keep track of what they are and as a result when we have something to share, we are not exactly sure which of our contacts are interested in it. So we end up either sending it to those that are not quite interested or not sending it to the right person.
We miss an opportunity to engage.

EngageVia allows you to tag yourself and tag your contacts in your address book and when you get ready to share something, simply tag the content and the tool handily tells you which of your contacts are interested in it so you can send it only to them.

What you see in the competition is only a prototype,
plans are there to extend it with more features to make engagement with your contacts more realistic.

Feedback is greatly appreciated.

By: Rails Rumble 2008: What does 48hrs get you? | lab209

Rails Rumble 2008: What does 48hrs get you? | lab209 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:48:37 +0000

[...] total of 131 applications qualified and you can vote for any of [...]

By: Josh Walsh

Josh Walsh — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:27:23 +0000

Thanks I appreciate the compliments. I’ll pass them along to my teammates.

By: Tad

Tad — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:30:34 +0000

I didn’t realize that there were only 22 solo teams. My site, http://www.choresimple.com is a tool that helps parents schedule chores for the week so a family can work efficiently and enjoy more free time.

By: David Haywood Smith

David Haywood Smith — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:14:12 +0000

This is really impressive! Great to see such high quality apps!

By: Branden Alan Silva

Branden Alan Silva — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:02:57 +0000

You did an amazing job. I’m jealous! This would of probably taken me a month to do if I was consistently working. I’m new to the programming scene in general though.

I love rails and it’s my favorite out of all of the land.

The only thing left for your app is to strap on a paid model, and attach an iphone/ipod app with it

By: informednetworker.com

informednetworker.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:40:35 +0000

131 Rails Apps Launched This Past Weekend; You Get To Vote For The Best…

The 2008 Rails Rumble, a competition for Ruby on Rails coders, saw 131 web applications launch into the wild this past weekend. The quality of the applications increased dramatically this year, turning the competition into something of a startup hyper…

By: Feloney

Feloney — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:30:26 +0000

That is also what comes from my experience. Python is extremely powerful especially when combined with Google App Engine -> as it handles both the whole scalability issue and coding simplicity. As an illustration: (found recently): http://www.quotag.com

By: Ruby Chick

Ruby Chick — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:17:17 +0000

Thanks to all who have generously contributed to the Rails Rumble

By: Kevin Milden

Kevin Milden — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:28:16 +0000

Nice to see a rails rumble post!

By: Brian Hogan

Brian Hogan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:23:53 +0000

@Doug Avery: I love Qflip. Great job!

Our app, http://www.whosgot.me lets you track what you owe your friends and what they owe you. You can even record debts using SMS, so you won’t forget. It was developed by two Railers and two students and it was a blast of a weekend.

By: JAcky

JAcky — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:34:19 +0000

we recently used ruby as a new tech stack for our company and we are delighted to see the ability
ruby and python both rocks

By: Sylvain Utar

Sylvain Utar — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:51:59 +0000

Don’t you think phpMyAdmin is old and gray? For Rails Rumble, our team bootstrapped an opensource web-based mysql admin with conventions, some ajax and other cool stuff : rbDB (http://socialli...railsrumble.com)!

By: Bryce Carpenter

Bryce Carpenter — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:48:22 +0000

This is awesome! Just posted a video on my blog linking to this article – I would love to see this done maybe over a week or so. It would be interesting to see if the quality of apps improve.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:36:16 +0000

That’s a useful app. Well done.

By: Mark Bao

Mark Bao — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:35:02 +0000

I worked solo on http://inspires...railsrumble.com . Fun experience. Definitely doing next year.

By: Roland Swingler

Roland Swingler — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:57:42 +0000

I’m one of the “solo teams”, managed to get http://pricepou...railsrumble.com all done and dusted despite going to a murder mystery night half way through…

I’m definitely planning on keeping my app around after the competition – I built it because I wanted it more than anything else. Playing around with the Amazon API has been fun as well.

By: Doug Avery

Doug Avery — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:39:25 +0000

Speaking as a designer (and not a coder), it was a crazy-fun 48 hours. Our app Qflip (http://qflip.r0...ailsrumble.com/) helps throw a little randomness into your Netflix queue.

This year’s OpenID focus has made it especially awesome to browse and rate the apps, so check out OpenID if you feel like playing with a few but don’t want to type in 131 logins.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:35:08 +0000

that’s pretty neat, and actually something that combines my laziness and short attention span into something I’d use. good job, josh.

By: álvaro

álvaro — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:30:06 +0000

Our rumbler from Spain, Taguéame.

http://tagueame...railsrumble.com

a very fun experiment about tagging people. come with your friends and you’ll see

By: Henry Work

Henry Work — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:30:03 +0000

Hey Jacques… did you compete this year? Also, update your blog more often, dude! Freelancing can’t take all of your time!

By: tommy

tommy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:54:42 +0000

Our’s was Foodistic: http://foodistic.com/

You can learn about what you are eating and track your health habits. Give it a shot!

By: Rails Jedi

Rails Jedi — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:52:47 +0000

My app for for last year’s Rails Rumble (pubbud.com) never really took off, however I was able to extract the code into a white label and make it available here: http://railskits.com/map. So not a total loss!

By: Jacques

Jacques — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:49:42 +0000

Here is my solo entry to Rails Rumble 2008: http://www.comicly.com

Think it turned out pretty well! Hope you guys like it!