The Rails Rumble is an annual 48 hour web application development competition in which teams of skilled web application developers get one weekend to design, develop, and deploy the best web property that they can, using the power of Ruby and Rails.

Congratulations to our winners! The applications in the list below were the top performers in the contest, as selected by our panel of experts and the Internet community at large!

The Following Web Apps Were Built In 48 Hours During Rails Rumble. And They Are Full Of Awesome.
1st Place Overall hi.im by Koombea	hi.im by Koombea » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (80)	3.375	3.694	3.415	3.127	3.267
2nd Place Overall How's My Code? by CoworkingMVD	How's My Code? by CoworkingMVD » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (49)	3.181	3.015	3.213	3.206	3.289
3rd Place Overall Tablesurfing by Gorillaminds	Tablesurfing by Gorillaminds » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (32)	3.175	3.267	3.154	3.256	3.020
Appearance Category Winner Lowdown by Microbrew Certified Partners	Lowdown by Microbrew Certified Pa... » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (58)	3.038	3.261	2.941	2.924	3.024
Usefulness Category Winner ZenVDN by Zencoder	ZenVDN by Zencoder » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (29)	2.942	3.078	3.078	2.691	2.920
Completeness Category Winner hurl by 201	hurl by 201 » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (43)	2.877	2.741	3.104	2.675	2.989
omnominator by omNOMinators	omnominator by omNOMinators » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (31)	2.816	3.124	2.880	2.604	2.653
PeepNote by Agile Nomads	PeepNote by Agile Nomads » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (30)	2.798	3.095	2.926	2.657	2.513
Bartender Cocktail Recipies by acts_as_ninjas	Bartender Cocktail Recipies by acts_as_ninjas » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (27)	2.729	2.855	2.863	2.469	2.729
Solo Division Winner AlertMe.tv by couch potato	AlertMe.tv by couch potato » Visit Team Profile solo » View Comments (30)	2.704	2.995	2.704	2.479	2.638
Pockets by Winners	Pockets by Winners » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (23)	2.645	2.727	2.744	2.781	2.327
Diversion by The Catacrockers	Diversion by The Catacrockers » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (14)	2.610	2.722	2.726	2.505	2.486
Innovation Category Winner LAZEROIDS! by 734m	LAZEROIDS! by 734m » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (60)	2.595	2.653	2.744	2.800	2.181
Daily Stamp by Just Ryan	Daily Stamp by Just Ryan » Visit Team Profile solo » View Comments (30)	2.590	2.627	2.744	2.487	2.501
Hot Spots by Heavyweight rockstars	Hot Spots by Heavyweight rockstars » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (14)	2.564	2.808	2.585	2.511	2.349
Twixperts by Twixperts	Twixperts by Twixperts » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (21)	2.531	2.574	2.648	2.450	2.455
Heart On by Van Damme	Heart On by Van Damme » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (19)	2.519	3.100	2.846	2.240	1.893
Quippopotamus by Onehub	Quippopotamus by Onehub » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (15)	2.508	2.870	2.734	2.310	2.114
loanit.to by Great Lakes Geeks	loanit.to by Great Lakes Geeks » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (25)	2.507	2.454	2.713	2.348	2.516
Minutes by Team DUMBO	Minutes by Team DUMBO » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (20)	2.502	2.541	2.469	2.454	2.543
Let's wadus by Monsters of Ruby	Let's wadus by Monsters of Ruby » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (15)	2.454	2.477	2.633	2.297	2.410
Last Percent by Rawnet	Last Percent by Rawnet » Visit Team Profile » View Comments (22)	2.394	2.490	2.284	2.260	2.541

Want to see more great micro-apps? 237 teams competed in the competition, and 137 of those completed a working application within the time period.

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