#railsrumble

[webdesignclub]

Day 023 - Onboarding So this is an onboarding for or railsrumble project! Web Design

[venel-me]

Humble Defeat

by, Venel Rene

Well I competed in my first Rail Rumble this weekend. Filled with great idea's with little exception for results. Only messing with Ruby on Rails for 4 weeks, I took the rails challenge heads on.

First day started at 8pm and I would note, it went well! Everything was following between me and my teammate. We separated certain tasked based on skills and ended the night ahead of schedule. 

The next day, was a different story. Spending a lot of time debugging and figuring out front-end designed drained both me and my partner. Collectively, the both of us are good and strong with back-end work. We underestimated how much work went into designing a app.

Before we could get a grip of things after, competing the design for our app, time ran out. One moment we had 3 hours remaining and within seconds it felt like we were out of time and missed the deadline. 

It was disappointing to not get a app submitted by the deadline, but rewarding to have learned a lot from the experience. Key things I learned : 1. Time management is VERY Important

2. organization, clears things up

3. communication is a very good asset.

4. Its ok to have fun.

It was a humble lost but the whole experience was worth it. Now I am looking forward to next year. 

[mari-coworking]

Screencast of the final product

[ganban-blog]

Ganban v.1.2.0 has been released.

- 2 Bug fixed

- 10 new features added.

Look CHANGELOG.md for more detail info.

Regards.

[kiskolabs]

Rails Rumble 2013: Meals/Feels

Log your meals and feels to spot food allergies

⇒ Voting is now open (until October 24th 23:59 UTC)

Track what you eat and how you feel afterwards. Use this information to figure out what foods consistently cause problems for you.

Guest accounts: try it out before signing up

Remembers meal ingredients and symptoms you've entered in the past and auto-suggests them to you

Big-picture view of meal and symptom history

Size-agnostic design: a responsive UI with a minimum amount of media queries

So check out Meals/Feels and give us Feedback via our Rails Rumble entry.

And as a bonus, here's a quick visualization of our two day development sprint:

[koombea-blog]

Caffeine, code, and competition. RailsRumble 2013

In just a few hours, RailsRumble 2013 starts and everyone is getting excited. Here at Koombea, we encourage and have a lot of teams participating in this competition. If you’re new to Rails Rumble, let me give you a run through. Teams consisting of 1-4 designers and developers compete to build a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) within 48 hours. Little sleep is slept, and large amounts of coffee and those controversial energy drinks are consumed. Let the fun begin!

I interviewed some team members about what it’s like to be a part of RailsRumble, what they learned from previous years, their uncanny advice to someone who is starting the competition for the first time, and most importantly their caffeine schedule (beginners take note.)

  The absolute, most exciting thing

For developers and designers, RailsRumble is enormous amounts of fun. They get competitive, innovative, and a family-type bond forms. That feel-good anxiety is one we’ve felt before, but they don’t stop feeling it for exactly 48 hours. Miguel Perez, our Technical Lead says with excitement, “It is always exciting to participate in the RailsRumble contest. As time goes by you learn a lot of things and it is a great experience to put yourself at test and check how well you can manage to overcome your obstacles.” Testing yourself is such a great individual check-up. Luis says, “it’s simply the team atmosphere, we get to create a product while having fun.”

  Mistakes learned from

If you’re trying to build an app within 48 hours, you’re going to run into problems. The key is to having the right strategy in advance. Luis Hernandez says, “We spent 3 months in advance trying to decide and build upon our idea, the MVP,” he continues, “There was one thing we learned last year that we don’t want to repeat again. We can’t spend extra time on features that we don’t really need. You need to focus on your main goals and complete the MVP just in time.” Miguel agrees and puts it simply, “ Focus, minimize, and collaborate. It is important to be relaxed and focus on the ultimate goal. Be patient and use your time wisely, you don’t have much of it.”

  Advice for the newcomer

Carlos Montoya, a Junior Designer, is brand new to RailsRumble 2013. I asked him, “How are you feeling right now?” He responded, “I’m really excited and nervous at the same time. This is my very first Rails Rumble experience and the fact that we have to build an app in 48 hours and compete with other people around the world is fantastic.”

  Since Carlos is new to the competition, what advice does he need to know? Luis suggests, “Try to find the best way to organize your tasks, and focus on the end goal. This year we are going to establish partials goals for us to complete in advance, hour by hour.” It seems like creating and finishing partial goals helps to finish the end goal. Miguel chimes in, “ Don’t build a huge app. Think always “what would the judges do?” They only have 2 or 3 minutes to look at your app and have 499 more entries to review. “

  Caffeine and beverage schedule

It seems like Miguel and Luis have the strategy down when it comes to beverage intake.

  Miguel literally has a complete and concise schedule:

The competition starts at 7 pm.

7 p.m.- 3 a.m. -3 cups of coffee, and then finish with a beer.

7a.m.-noon. 1-2 more cups of coffee.

Noon- 30 minute rest time.

12:30 p.m.-12 a.m. – 2 Redbulls

5 a.m. One more coffee for good luck.

Luis’ advice, “I prefer Jack Daniels.”

As you read this blog, more time has gone buy, and now you are ever closer to the competition. Good luck teams! See you at the finish line.

  Transcriber: @keswanberg

People interviewed:

Luis Hernandez, Senior Designer, @foxtropical

Miguel Perez, Technical Lead, @chopi

Carlos Montoya, Junior Designer, (too cool for Twitter)

[thoughtbot]

Let’s get ready to RUMMMMBLE!

Are you ready to go from idea to execution with a working Rails web app in just 48 hours?

We will be opening up some of our offices during the Rails Rumble competition hours between October 19 - 20, 2013. Several thoughtbotters are participating in the event, and you're welcomed to join and work from our offices during that time. We'll stock our fridge with tasty beverages and provide you with working wifi all day long.

If you're in Boston, our office is at 41 Winter Street, 7th floor, near Park St and Downtown Crossing T stop. You should be able to get in and up onto 7th floor. If not, ping us at @thoughtbot and someone will come down and let you in.

If you're in San Francisco, our office is at 85 2nd St, Suite 700, near Montgomery station. Tell the security that you're coming to thoughtbot office, then ride the elevator up to 7th floor. Our entrance will be on your right.

Our offices will open at 9 AM on each day. Since the space in our offices are limited, be sure to tweet us at @thoughtbot to tell us that you're coming. We'll update this blog post and tweet out if any of the spaces are fully occupied. In that case, you'll still be welcome to stop by, but we may not have a space for you to work.

See you on October 19th!

[fixmyglobe-blog]

A look back into the long awaited Rails Rumble 2012 weekend

They pulled it off October 13th at 00:00 UTC the clock started to tick. Rails Rumble 2012 started and we were ready to kick off. It's the first time I participated, but waited a long time. And now it's over and we all are waiting for the results.

Some people ask us about how we did manage to get the app running in one weekend. Or better said as soon as a feature finished it appeared on our Linode host.

First of all, the provides Linode VPS was extremely easy to setup, the provided capistrano finished it and I think it took not more than an half an hour to have our app in the air.

Then we started building that night. Our idea is very simple because we really wanted to have complete at the end of the Rumble. Our primary goal was to get satisfied with the result and than winning the competition. 

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Ghandi

We already had thought our Idea but we did not prepare any sketches or what so ever. Everything happend while developing that small app which had to be good in what it is. Although we may not have reached that level yet, every one of us can be proud. I met two great people I didn't know in person yet. One of them was getting more into Rails while Rumbling, and it's fun to coach under pressure! He was impressed about the speed of getting something to work out of scratch within and hopefully will adapt Rails in the future for his profession :) . He is as far as I know the second Moroccan Rails developer in the Netherlands. 

Normally when I develop I rarely build features not backed up by a test suite. It felt somehow weird and I forgave myself this time. But I did get confronted in the end of the Rumble, I could have gone earlier to bed that day. Whenever a bug was smashed another appeared. But all good the majority works now. 

I really loved the fact that we had such a diverse team. @mmelmaslouhi the second Rails backender a great person to work with and fast learner as well, @mdekuijper the awesome frontend-end developer. It was as if he was wiping the screen and all fell in place. @jibly was the creative mind in the team, he did the visual design / ux / video as well as the inventor of this idea. Also we didn't want to have missed him in our team. Watch our crazy  hacking video @ http://www.fixmyglobe.com/about

This may sound as we already have won the contest, but it isn't, it will be really hard. I saw some awesome apps created this weekend, I cannot conclude else than that I do not regret my choice for Rails almost 5 years ago. It's a great framework backed by a very active and large community. 

So what will happen to www.fixmyglobe.com ? We still think it's a good idea when well executed and with a better user experience and some other features we thought about like: 

- Charting of people with good deeds - Extending the gamifaction engine behind the app with badges - Defining incentives to really encourage visitor to do some good - Categorisation and giving good examples of things you could fix - Acceptable exploration of globe fixes (the before and after pics) it isn't mass proof ;)

- etc. etc.

We really look out to finish off this project and keeping it there so people really can do good and show off the good. If you like our app or idea and if you have suggesting please let us know or just say hi! 

Rachid Al Maach Freelance Rails developer @rachidalm

[venel-me]

Are you ready to Rummmmmble!!

by, Venel Rene

Are you ready to Rummmmmble!! Yes the Rails Rumble is here, well its actually tomorrow. As a class, we are only 4 weeks into ruby on rails. It took major courage, for many of us to even sign up for this rumble.

Ok you ask what is "Rails Rumble"? Well "The Rails Rumble is a distributed programming competition where hundreds of teams of one to four people, from all over the world, have 48 hours to build an innovative web application, with Ruby on Rails or another Rack-based Ruby web framework. After the 48 hours are up, everyone picks their favorites and the top ten winners are revealed!"

Basically it’s a two days, sweaty, brain draining, hardcore, app building competition. My instructor Brian Burridge , who I consider a beast! When it comes to coding. He has competed numerouse times with more than one top ten finishes. So, I am pretty sure you figured out who motivates us to compete.  

There's this rush of excitement rushing through my vain. I love competing, I love supporting my fellow classmate, and I LOVE to have fun building! The question that keeps circling around my head is, am I really ready! We will see tomorrow in the rumble ring, what four weeks of intensive coding can create.

Let the FIGHT BEGIN! 

[jhsu]

RailsRumble 2012: Bring-a-Thing

For RailsRumble, we decided to create a group to represent our local [WNY Ruby meetup group](http://www.meetup.com/Western-New-York-Ruby/). We formed our gang of four:  * Myself, [Joseph Hsu](http://twitter.com/jhsu) * [Mark Josef](http://twitter.com/1ofyourmeteors) * [Amanda Quaranto](http://twitter.com/aquaranto) * [Stan Hiller](http://twitter.com/deliverator_) We started a few hours late (DARN YOU TIMEZONES CONVERSIONS!), but we put in the 48-hours. Our app idea came from [Mark](http://twitter.com/1ofyourmeteors). The app would help manage what people are to bring to a party. # [Bring-a-Thing](http://wny-ruby-represent.r12.railsrumble.com/)  Don't forget to check out our [RailsRumble Page](http://railsrumble.com/entries/364-bring-a-thing) and vote for us!

[ganban-blog]

Ganban v.1.1.0 has been released and deploy.

- Two bugs fixed.

- 18 new features

For more information see CHANGELOG.md 

[marcosortiz]

Rails Rumble 2012 Registration Now Open

The 48 hour Ruby webapp development contest is back and aiming to be bigger than ever before. Prizes and publicity await the winners (previous winners have been featured on sites like TechCrunch and The Next Web). Registration closes end of October 7. http://blog.railsrumble.com/2012/10/01/registration-is-now-open/ 10mo. ANIVERSARIO DE LA CREACION DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS CIENCIAS INFORMATICAS... CONECTADOS AL FUTURO, CONECTADOS A LA REVOLUCION http://www.uci.cu http://www.facebook.com/universidad.uci http://www.flickr.com/photos/universidad_uci

[learningcat-blog]

Rails rumble new identity.

[ganban-blog]

Ganban v.1.0.0 has been released. Now we are at production... Bugs and feedbacks are welcome...

[ganban-blog]

Everything is reviewed... Time to deploy v.1.0.0 then we are in production.

[ganban-blog]

Last screenshot from kanban... We should improve sort and move features.