How do you generate nearly a quarter million lines of code in 48 hours? Simple: take about 500 coders, lock them in rooms all over the world, and challenge them to create complete web applications in 2 days. That, in a nutshell, is the Rails Rumble, a 48 hour programming competition held each year that gathers Ruby on Rails fanatics to create web apps in a single weekend.

Last weekend marked the second year that the Rumble was held, and a total of 529 participants across 231, one, two, three, and four person teams competed. That’s a huge jump from last year when under 350 people participated in the competition. Of the 231 teams that signed up, about 57% were up to the task of actually finishing an application in the allotted 48 hours. 90 teams got the deed done last year.

Full Story: Rails Rumble: 245,000 Lines of Code in 48 Hours Source: SitePoint Blogs, October 24th, 2008 Author: Josh Catone Added on October 24th, 2008 at 12:59 pm, by Matt Mikula