# Contest Idea

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contest-idea/108178>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 29, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contest-idea/108178 "2007-06-29T19:50:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![cpher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@cpher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cpher)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contest-idea/108178/1 "2007-06-29T19:50:57Z")

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Hello,  
I am fairly new to RoR. I heard about a contest that the community  
had awhile back where developer teams were given 24 hours to write an  
web application. I recently participated in a photo contest that was  
of similar nature, the contest allowed you only 24 hours to take edit  
and submit your finished product. The catch was that a theme was  
announced at the start time for the contest. So at 5pm everyone  
logged on to apples website for the theme of the contest.

I really think it would be fun and challenging to create a contest  
like the one apple held, but for rails developers. You could take a  
simple topic like an e-commerce website for a coffee shop and push  
everyone in one direction but receive many different results.

I don’t know if this is the best place to send this idea but I’m  
hoping someone will see it and know where to go with it. If its a bad  
idea just forget it, but if someone is willing to help get the ball  
rolling I would really like to be a part of this.

-Chris

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