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Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

63 points by clowder 14y ago

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

clowder 14y ago
Congratulations to everyone involved. Also, many thanks to the organisers & judges, it was a blast!
nodesocket 14y ago
DeployButton (http://deploybutton.com http://deploybutton.com) and Revision.io (http://revision.io http://revision.io) were my favorite.
- railsjedi 14y ago
  Awesome, thanks a ton! Fixing up deploybutton now, hope to have some of the bugs worked out soon.
- levinet 14y ago
  DeployButton was definitely my favourite too!
vijayr 14y ago
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 http://findseri.es/tv_series/search
- stickyku 14y ago
  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.
  - sandropadin 14y ago
    I really like the animation too. But I'm wondering why they chose to make a collage of movie posters if the search is for tv shows. Awesome nonetheless.
    - suttol 14y ago
      Check at the top on the front page or any of the show pages - there is an option to toggle to search movies as well.
    - levinet 14y ago
      Also the collage has an even mix of TV and movies. :)
- aantix 14y ago
  Is this a jquery plugin or something that they created themselves?
  - sj26 14y ago
    Entirely home–grown CSS with transitions via Sass/Compass by the ever–wonderful http://levibuzolic.com/ http://levibuzolic.com/.
cpg 14y ago
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.
- mnicole 14y ago
  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.
  - codinghorror 14y ago
    so meta, I love it! (And also would be helpful for all future Rumbles.)
  - sj26 14y ago
    Agreed, although apparently this has been tried a few times without success. Do it next year!
danso 14y ago
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 http://medpass.es) used a government drug pill identification API I'd never heard of before: http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/index.html http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/index.html
- gurgeous 14y ago
  From what I can tell, here are the most popular gems for the ten winners: haml (8) devise (6) coffee (5) sass (5) pry (5) sidekiq (4) mysql (4) honeybadger (4) simple_form (3) pusher (3) bootstrap (3) It's pretty clear that haml/coffee/sass are just flat out winning, despite all the handwringing.
  - sj26 14y ago
    We used Slim for findthin.gs—it's faster, has much better whitespace control, and, imho, better achieves Haml's reduce noise, increase beauty aims. But there's no contest about Sass and CoffeeScript being amazing.
aculver 14y ago
Awesome. There was a little bit of discussion here about the winner (http://findthin.gs/ http://findthin.gs/) a few days ago at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4659320 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/ 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.
- vertis 14y ago
  There are other benefits though. The exposure, and the feedback from other participants/judges.
- petercooper 14y ago
  It seems modest given the sheer scale of the event (500 teams) and the size of some of the sponsors. I think a couple of things come into play. It was far from guaranteed that 500 teams would actually sign up. The Rails Rumble didn't take place in 2011 and was fresh back this year. Also, I'd make a guess that having more sponsors reduces their interest in putting up more than they have to. If it were just a few, they'd get more out of it so might put up more goodies. Collectively, though, I think the prizes are pretty good. (Disclaimer: I'm partly involved with the Rumble but am not involved with sponsorships at all and know no details.)
- levinet 14y ago
  I think the prizes are actually pretty good considering the zero cost of entry. A local startup weekend I participated in had prizes that were far less than what was on offer for Rails Rumble 2012.
atonse 14y ago
We built http://planswiftly.com http://planswiftly.com as our RR 12 submission. After seeing the amazing entries that did win, we are humbled and inspired to try harder next time around. (And next time, we will absolutely hunt down a great designer)
- nanijoe 14y ago
  Your design is veeeeery attractive. In fact, it was the one that stood out the most to me when I first looked through the entries. I'd love to "borrow" your mediocre designer

63 points by clowder 14y ago

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

clowder 14y ago

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

nodesocket 14y ago

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

railsjedi 14y ago
Awesome, thanks a ton! Fixing up deploybutton now, hope to have some of the bugs worked out soon.
levinet 14y ago
DeployButton was definitely my favourite too!

vijayr 14y ago

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 http://findseri.es/tv_series/search

stickyku 14y ago
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.
- sandropadin 14y ago
  I really like the animation too. But I'm wondering why they chose to make a collage of movie posters if the search is for tv shows. Awesome nonetheless.
  - suttol 14y ago
    Check at the top on the front page or any of the show pages - there is an option to toggle to search movies as well.
  - levinet 14y ago
    Also the collage has an even mix of TV and movies. :)
aantix 14y ago
Is this a jquery plugin or something that they created themselves?
- sj26 14y ago
  Entirely home–grown CSS with transitions via Sass/Compass by the ever–wonderful http://levibuzolic.com/ http://levibuzolic.com/.

cpg 14y ago

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.

mnicole 14y ago
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.
- codinghorror 14y ago
  so meta, I love it! (And also would be helpful for all future Rumbles.)
- sj26 14y ago
  Agreed, although apparently this has been tried a few times without success. Do it next year!

danso 14y ago

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 http://medpass.es) used a government drug pill identification API I'd never heard of before: http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/index.html http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/index.html

gurgeous 14y ago
From what I can tell, here are the most popular gems for the ten winners: haml (8) devise (6) coffee (5) sass (5) pry (5) sidekiq (4) mysql (4) honeybadger (4) simple_form (3) pusher (3) bootstrap (3) It's pretty clear that haml/coffee/sass are just flat out winning, despite all the handwringing.
- sj26 14y ago
  We used Slim for findthin.gs—it's faster, has much better whitespace control, and, imho, better achieves Haml's reduce noise, increase beauty aims. But there's no contest about Sass and CoffeeScript being amazing.

aculver 14y ago

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

vertis 14y ago
There are other benefits though. The exposure, and the feedback from other participants/judges.
petercooper 14y ago
It seems modest given the sheer scale of the event (500 teams) and the size of some of the sponsors. I think a couple of things come into play. It was far from guaranteed that 500 teams would actually sign up. The Rails Rumble didn't take place in 2011 and was fresh back this year. Also, I'd make a guess that having more sponsors reduces their interest in putting up more than they have to. If it were just a few, they'd get more out of it so might put up more goodies. Collectively, though, I think the prizes are pretty good. (Disclaimer: I'm partly involved with the Rumble but am not involved with sponsorships at all and know no details.)
levinet 14y ago
I think the prizes are actually pretty good considering the zero cost of entry. A local startup weekend I participated in had prizes that were far less than what was on offer for Rails Rumble 2012.

atonse 14y ago

We built http://planswiftly.com http://planswiftly.com as our RR 12 submission. After seeing the amazing entries that did win, we are humbled and inspired to try harder next time around. (And next time, we will absolutely hunt down a great designer)

nanijoe 14y ago
Your design is veeeeery attractive. In fact, it was the one that stood out the most to me when I first looked through the entries. I'd love to "borrow" your mediocre designer