Rails Rumble is a competition which gives teams of developers 48 hours to build the best web app that they can using Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...

. It is similar in spirit to Rails Day

Rails Day

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.-2005 Winners:Out of 55 Entries that qualified:...

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The first competition was held from September 8–9, 2007.

Sponsors

The sponsors of Rails Rumble 2008 include Apress, Inc., Linode

Linode

Linode is a web application hosting and cloud computing provider based in Galloway Township, New Jersey. Linode allows system administrators and software developers to rent virtual servers on which to run their own computer applications...

, GitHub, and O'Reilly Media. These sponsors contributed the prizes for the event, which included free memberships for various online services, hardware, T-shirts, and, in 2008, a Rails Rumble belt for the first place winner.