Rails Day 2006 Winners

Best Overall

  1. Freckle (#65) by Amy Hoy and Bryan Wood.
  2. Good to Garden (#40) by Will Emigh and Rory Starks.
  3. Cuppin (#33) by Peat Bakke and Raymond Brigleb.

Best Solo Project

  1. Rails Wishlist (#174) by Hampton Catlin.

Best User Interface

  1. WeRateStuff (#18) by Frederico Oliveira, Tiago Macedo and Pedro Eduardo Lemos Freitas.
  2. D20 Online (#47) by Tom Leiber, Jeff Mickey and Javier.
  3. C.umul.us (#59) by Jae Hess.

Most Creative

  1. Awesome Ninja Game (#182) by Tobias Lutke, Cody, and Daniel.
  2. Family Book (#19) by Lucas Carlson and John Butler
  3. Roomind.us (#119) by Dominic Damian, Ben Myles and Chris Abad.

Most Useful

  1. Heartbeat (#103) by Charles Brian Quinn and Derek Haynes.
  2. Regex Tutor (#61) by Ryan Bates.
  3. Profilr (#84) by Terence Haddock and Mark Chadwick.

Note: We restricted each project to winning no more than one prize. To do this, we gave winning projects the best prize to which they were entitled and then eliminated them from consideration for the rest of the prizes.

Congratulations to all the winners and also everyone who competed! Thank you to the judges and sponsors who made this possible! I’ll be following up with the winners via email to arrange getting the prizes to the right places.

Because of my excitement and in the interest of getting this post live ASAP, I’m probably forgetting all sorts of important details. Expect follow up posts for anything I missed.

Comments

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Ryan 18 Oct 20:53

Congratulations everyone! It was a blast. I hope there will be one next year.

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Jae Hess 18 Oct 21:14

Hats off to everyone that participated! Big love to the sponsors and judges. O{-<]:

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Johannes de Jong 19 Oct 04:17

Congratulations all, well done !!!!

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Jakob S 19 Oct 07:55

Grats to the winners! And muchos thanks to the judges for even daring to do this.

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Manfred 19 Oct 08:23

Can you link to the code of the winners?

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Matthijs Langenberg 19 Oct 08:30

Congratulations to the winners!

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evan 19 Oct 08:39

If I can pimp my own article, here’s a big summary of all the winners, with lots of screenshots:

http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2006/10/19/grand-tour-of-the-13-railsday-winners

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Bryan Helmkamp 19 Oct 13:29

Great write-up, Evan!

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jer 19 Oct 14:46

Apparently the RSS feed went away (during the site move?) and I get an error page trying to use the feed link from the home page. The last post I saw from the feed was Aug 8.

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jaq 19 Oct 14:53

Congratulations to all the winners! And thanks to the judges for your hard work.

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Diego 20 Oct 00:51

Congratulations to everybody. Is there any chance to post the project dumps again?

I tried to link to the old ones and I get 404 message.

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Jack 20 Oct 01:16

jer, the feed and link should be fixed now. Sorry I missed that during the move. Let me know if you have any more trouble with it.

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Jan Wikholm 20 Oct 11:18

Congratulations to winners and Many MANY thanks to judges for not giving up and producing us the results :)

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murphy 20 Oct 15:48

Yay :D

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dayne 21 Oct 05:33

I still have an archive of the rails day projects. http://tofu.gina.alaska.edu/share/railsday-dumps

Many thanks to the judges for finishing this up. It was a blast, even if it did take months to find out the results.

-dayne

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Ryan Allen 22 Oct 13:33

Congratulations on getting the results out :)

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Quadro 29 Oct 09:46

Hooray, after long work there are results. Damn, that’s good

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Marco Rodrigues 31 Oct 00:41

WeRateStuff or WeBreakStuff (www.webreakstuff.com) ?

Something is wrong :-)

Congratulations to this Portuguese company.

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Miles 02 Nov 20:57

It’s been two weeks since these results were posted and I know from talking to one of the winners that they have not been contacted yet to receive their prize. What gives? Haven’t the winners waited long enough?

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Steven Smith 03 Nov 05:50

We were one of the prize donors for Rails Day 2006 (giving away a MacBook Pro). I found out the winners had been announced on the 25th because a co-worker checked the site and saw they had been announced on the 18th. I emailed railsday.com that day asking for information on how to contact the person that had won our prize and haven’t heard back yet. If anyone knows of a different email address to use, I’d appreciate it. We’d love to get the Mac out to it’s rightful owner… :-)

I know you guys really worked hard on the projects and were very patient during the judging process. Thanks for all the participation.

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Stam 03 Nov 20:21

Organization is as always brings me down. Forget about this competition

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Tom 06 Nov 00:36

On behalf of the haxr team, I’d like to let people know that we haven’t been contacted about receiving the prizes either. What’s going on with the administrators?

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Ryan 07 Nov 23:40

Winners, if you haven’t received the prizes, I recommend you contact the sponsors directly. That’s what I did for the Pragmatic Programmer books and I got the prize shortly after – no need to go through Rails Day organizers, at least for that prize.

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Steven Smith 08 Nov 03:40

Just got contacted by Amy Hoy directly (Best Overall Winner). We’re shipping the MacBook Pro directly to her.

An official prize distribution list would still be helpful I think given the volume of prizes for the competition.

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Josh Catone 09 Nov 04:09

I just sent out an email to Lucas Carlson and John Butler directly about the prize from Rails Forum (Second Prize, Most Creative). I was hoping to hear from the Rails Day people, but since it seems people are taking prize distribution into their own hands, I figured it was time to seek out Lucas and John directly. :)

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