Rails Day

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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.

The first competition was held on June 4th, 2005.

[edit] 2005 Winners

 1. Sheets by Robert John Bousquet and Cyrus Farajpour
 2. YubNub by Jon Aquino
 3. Fichebowl by Brandt Kurowski, Ben Tucker, and Aaron Michal

There was a second competition held in June, 2006.

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[edit] 2006 Winners

Best Overall

  1. Freckle (#65) by Amy Hoy and Bryan Wood.
  2. Good to Garden (#40) by Will Emigh and Rory Starks.
  3. Cuppin (#33) by Peat Bakke and Raymond Brigleb.

Best Solo Project

  1. Rails Wishlist (#174) by Hampton Catlin.

Best User Interface

  1. WeRateStuff (#18) by Fred Oliveira, Tiago Macedo and Pedro Lopes Freitas.
  2. D20 Online (#47) by Tom Leiber, Jeff Mickey and Javier.
  3. C.umul.us (#59) by Jae Hess.

Most Creative

  1. Awesome Ninja Game (#182) by Tobias Lutke, Cody, and Daniel.
  2. Family Book (#19) by Lucas Carlson and John Butler
  3. Roomind.us (#119) by Dominic Damian, Ben Myles and Chris Abad.

Most Useful

  1. Heartbeat (#103) by Charles Brian Quinn and Derek Haynes.
  2. Regex Tutor (#61) by Ryan Bates.
  3. Profilr (#84) by Terence Haddock and Mark Chadwick.