Rails Day is a competition which gives teams of developers 24 hours to build the best web app that they can using Ruby on Rails.
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The first competition was held on June 4, 2005.
2005 Winners
Out of 55 Entries that qualified:
- Sheets by Robert John Bousquet and Cyrus Farajpour
- YubNub by Jon Aquino
- Fichebowl by Brandt Kurowski, Ben Tucker, and Aaron Michal
2006 Winners
Out of 183 Entries (only 127 actually committed anything to SVN):
Best Overall
- Freckle (#65) by Amy Hoy and Elise Wood.
- Good to Garden (#40) by Will Emigh and Rory Starks.
- Cuppin (#33) by Peat Bakke and Raymond Brigleb.
Best Solo Project
- Rails Wishlist (#174) by Hampton Catlin.
Best User Interface
- WeRateStuff (#18) by Fred Oliveira, Tiago Macedo and Pedro Freitas.
- D20 Online (#47) by Tom Leiber, Jeff Mickey and Javier.
- C.umul.us (#59) by Jae Hess.
Most Creative
- Awesome Ninja Game (#182) by Tobias Lutke, Cody, and Daniel.
- Family Book (#19) by Lucas Carlson and John Butler
- Roomind.us (#119) by Dominic Damian, Ben Myles and Chris Abad.
Most Useful
- Heartbeat (#103) by Charles Brian Quinn and Derek Haynes.
- Regex Tutor (#61) by Ryan Bates.
- Profilr (#84) by Terence Haddock and Mark Chadwick.
Related competitions
References
Rails Day Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA