Rails rumble, this competition where Ruby on Rails developers were invited to code a web application in 48 Hours, is now over. Since today 00:00 GMT precisely.
I participated this year, and managed to develop a personal stretch reminder, called Sheep Fit. You can visit the application for the beta use here. The blog, with all the creation step was maintained during these 48 H by Nathalie Cacahuete.
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How was it ?**
Very hard. I was alone for all the development and the design and the deployement process. So just a bit** **wired not to finish in time.
Because there were contestants from all over the world, the competition started at 00:00 GMT in the night from Friday to Saturday, and finished 48 hours later.
The first coding night was ok, but I was really too tired on the second night.
Lots of trouble with the app, with timezones (finally I had to go in rails 2.1 instead of 2.1.1 …) and with the Linode server. I really thanks Matt for the good advice he gave me**** : Go to bed 5 hours and come back to finish your application.
What did i learn ?
I have to write test …. really. I don’t write full application test usually, just a few and then that bores me. But this this experience made it clear to me : Tests are the key to develop productively. If you don’t write them** **you’ll lost and waste too much time resolving bugs which should not be there.
I’ve downloaded the 3 RSpec Peepcode videos and I’ll take time to look at them carefully.
Other developers were really cool. When I shared on twitter my fears about not finishing the application, I had plenty of messages pushing me to keep going and not to stop. Thanks you all.
**What was the best part ?
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I participated this year, and managed to develop a personal stretch reminder, called Sheep Fit. You can visit the application for the beta use here. The blog, with all the creation step was maintained during these 48 H by Nathalie Cacahuete.
**
How was it ?**
Very hard. I was alone for all the development and the design and the deployement process. So just a bit** **wired not to finish in time.
Because there were contestants from all over the world, the competition started at 00:00 GMT in the night from Friday to Saturday, and finished 48 hours later.
The first coding night was ok, but I was really too tired on the second night.
Lots of trouble with the app, with timezones (finally I had to go in rails 2.1 instead of 2.1.1 …) and with the Linode server. I really thanks Matt for the good advice he gave me**** : Go to bed 5 hours and come back to finish your application.
What did i learn ?
I have to write test …. really. I don’t write full application test usually, just a few and then that bores me. But this this experience made it clear to me : Tests are the key to develop productively. If you don’t write them** **you’ll lost and waste too much time resolving bugs which should not be there.
I’ve downloaded the 3 RSpec Peepcode videos and I’ll take time to look at them carefully.
Other developers were really cool. When I shared on twitter my fears about not finishing the application, I had plenty of messages pushing me to keep going and not to stop. Thanks you all.
**What was the best part ?
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Nathalie’s gingerbread :D- Deploy the application and saw it live
What about the other applications ?
You can find a list of rails rumble applications at 48hlaunch.com and at burm’s blog
Some are really awesome. Personally :
I really liked** **the feature comparison table of justafinlist- The first page of wantanom
- Nathalie likes to play with sellyourattention
- The Lyriscist logo is nice
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Really big thanks**** to Nathalie who supported me all the weekend … brave girl ;)Photos ?
Nathalie’s gingerbread :
Man at work :
