Rails Rumble 2007: Reduxbook
September 25th, 2007 by aizatto
Yes, I know this is a bit late, but a few weeks ago on the weekend of September 8th to the 9th, I participated in the first ever Rails Rumble competition. The goal of the competition was to build a Ruby on Rails application in 48 hours, basically the whole weekend. The prizes for Rails Rumble are really enticing. The winners are decided from the public voting for the best application.
Kamal, Kegan, and Sean and myself were camping out in RSB in Cyberjaya for most of the time. Found lunch and dinner there, though there really wasn’t much to eat over there.
Our application idea was to build a contacts aggregator from the various services out there. Be it Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Flickr, or your very own blog feed. We dubbed it Reduxbook.
At the start, Kamal handled the server and setting up the continuous deployment via Capistrano. Sean covered the HTML markup and design. Kegan looked at integrating the services. As for myself I hacked away at application’s source code.
The first few hours went okay, but as the 24 hour mark came by, we knew we were in a pinch. The last 24 hours was a real adrenaline rush, and it went by really really fast. But we were able to pull it through with an all nighter.
Don’t forget to vote for Reduxbook !
man Says
interesting blog…=)
hi,sorry.. not supposed to post it here,but cant find ur contact.may i contact u via e-mail to ask u bout ur transfer from APIIT to Monash?(need help on that)=)i have submitted my email add to u…if it is okay wit u, reply to my mail k.=)thanks.hope u can give me advice.THANKS ALOT =)
Sep 27th, 2007 at 12:27 am