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Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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Post by clowder » Fri, Oct 19, 2012, 4:28 PM UTC

The winners of 2012 Rails Rumble have been announced, so go check them out!

Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced
railsrumble.com

Re: Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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Post by clowder » Fri, Oct 19, 2012, 4:32 PM UTC

Congratulations to everyone involved. Also, many thanks to the organisers & judges, it was a blast!

Re: Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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Post by nodesocket » Fri, Oct 19, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

DeployButton (http://deploybutton.com) and Revision.io (http://revision.io) were my favorite.

Re: Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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Post by railsjedi » Fri, Oct 19, 2012, 5:29 PM UTC

nodesocket wrote: post #3

DeployButton ( http://deploybutton.com ) and Revision.io ( http://revision.io ) were my favorite.

Awesome, thanks a ton! Fixing up deploybutton now, hope to have some of the bugs worked out soon.

Re: Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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Post by vijayr » Fri, Oct 19, 2012, 5:32 PM UTC

Wow, just amazing how much some people can do in such a short time. The winner's design is awesome http://findseri.es/tv_series/search

Re: Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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Post by stickyku » Fri, Oct 19, 2012, 5:40 PM UTC

vijayr wrote: post #5

Wow, just amazing how much some people can do in such a short time. The winner's design is awesome http://findseri.es/tv_series/search

I was very impressed by that background animation for the first 10 seconds and then I got really dizzy. I think they should stop the animation a few sec after.

Re: Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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Post by cpg » Fri, Oct 19, 2012, 6:01 PM UTC

RR is always enjoyable.

UI issue: I found the descriptions hard to read. Too many things thrown at me, and the thing I want to see, the description, is in a small font and low contrast color.

Re: Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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Post by danso » Fri, Oct 19, 2012, 6:08 PM UTC

One of the most interesting things to me about this is the listing of gems/plugins and APIs used for each entry. If it's all in a structured form, it'd be interesting to see a table/list of the most used.

In terms of API, just browsing through, I saw that the Solo winner (http://medpass.es) used a government drug pill identification API I'd never heard of before:

http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/index.html

Re: Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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Post by aculver » Fri, Oct 19, 2012, 6:41 PM UTC

Awesome. There was a little bit of discussion here about the winner (http://findthin.gs/) a few days ago at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4659320 .

I have to say that I was really surprised with the prizes described at http://blog.railsrumble.com/2012/10/13/prizes-prizes-prizes/ . It seems modest given the sheer scale of the event (500 teams) and the size of some of the sponsors. Our local start-up weekend awarded $20,000 in cash between the top three winners, in addition to a lot of free services, and the competition wouldn't be nearly as stiff.

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Post by mnicole » Fri, Oct 19, 2012, 6:45 PM UTC

cpg wrote: post #7

RR is always enjoyable. UI issue: I found the descriptions hard to read. Too many things thrown at me, and the thing I want to see, the description, is in a small font and low contrast color.

My teammate and I agreed that the site needs some work and thought it would have been fun to Rails Rumble a new Rails Rumble.