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Rails Hackathon- A remote hackathon for Rails developers.

48 hours to build your best Ruby on Rails application with your friends.

This event's theme was

Supporting the Ruby on Rails Community

Hackathon has ended.

Our 48 hour hackathon is open to everyone.

Want to support the Ruby on Rails community? Are you a seasoned, junior or hobbyist developer who wants to try a crazy idea? You're all welcome to participate in the Rails Hackathon.

The first day of the hackathon is focused on getting started on your project. The Hackathon starts at 7 PM CDT

Today is the day to get those plans in motion and get the basics done.

Start wrapping up your project! Your app submission is due at the end of the 48 hours to qualify. (July 30th at 7 PM CDT)

  1. How It works

  2. Join our Discord

    Use our Discord to find a team, plan your projects, and make friends.

  3. Register your team

    Teams can be 1-4 people. Sign up and create your team to register for the hackathon.

  4. Plan your project

    You can't write any code ahead of time, but you can plan everything out.

  5. Start Coding

    We will provide a GitHub repository for you to submit your entry. You'll be able to start coding on July 28th at 7 PM CDT.

  6. Deploy

    Throughout the weekend, you'll want to deploy your application and test it in production. The production app will be used in judging.

  7. Submit & Deploy

    After 48 hours, you'll stop coding, deploy one last time, and submit your final code to the GitHub repo.

  8. Judging

    Once everyone is done, we'll go review all the submissions, play around with the apps in production, and judge each entry.

  9. Announcing Winners

    We will announce winners once all the entries have been judged.

Thanks to our sponsors ❤️

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