Take Ruby, put it on Rails, add some extremely talented developers and web designers, and give them 48 hours to build something great. That's what we did. These are the results.

The Winners Have Been Announced!

Voting for the event is now closed. The winners of the 2008 competition are:

	Entry	Awarded
	Meet In Between by Great Lakes Geeks	First Overall
	Qflip by Scatapult	Second Overall
	Riverdex by New Media Logic	Third Overall
	Jot.ly by Team Handcrafted	Best Appearance
	TrackClass by The Loose Knuckles	Best Completeness
	So2Speak by The Verbose	Best Innovation
	What Does this Error Mean? by Team GiraffeSoft	Best Usefulness
	Forever Home by Leaf on the Wind	Best Solo Team

Of course, those are merely 8 of the 130 qualifying entries in the 2008 competition. Many other useful, innovative, and attractive applications were also built within that same timeframe. Why not browse the full list? They represent an unbelievable amount of talent, hard work, and innovation. Oh and did we mention they were built in 48 hours?

Thanks to all the participating teams, the voters, and all of our sponsors for making this event possible. We had a great time, and we hope you did, too. For more news and other upcoming events, make sure to check out our blog.

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About the Contest

The Rails Rumble is a 48 hour web application development competition. As a contestant, you get one weekend to design, develop, and deploy the best web property that you can, using the awesome power of Ruby on Rails

As a judge, you get to review some great new (and useful! and fun!) micro applications and determine which teams fare best in a number of categories.

The build portion of this years event took place over the weekend of October 18th and 19th. Voting is now closed.

Winning teams will not only receive kudos from the Ruby on Rails community, they'll also win a number of incredible prizes, supplied by our event sponsors. By participating as a voter, you may also qualify to win a $20 USD Amazon gift voucher (5 winners selected randomly).