RAILS RUMBLE: 11 New Apps We Love

August 30th, 2009 admin

Last weekend, a group of entrepreneurs and programmers got together for Rails Rumble . The goal? To build the best web app possible in only 48 hours based on the Ruby on Rails programming framework


Originally posted on Mashable

 
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