This year for Rails Rumble, our team decided to write an app for tracking whom you’ve loaned your items to:

It was a blast, just like last year. Having James Pierce as our designer made a huge difference in the quality of our app.

Using Gawker, we recorded time lapse videos of our three sessions.

Session 1:

The fifth person in the video is our co-worker Will, who didn’t actually code anything for our Rumble app. He was there to provide some Git (and morale) support and keep Rumble Helper updated. So we didn’t cheat!

Session 2:

I forgot the timestamps on this one, but it lasted from about 9:30am on Saturday to 5am on Sunday (the last 15 seconds [3 hours or so real time] is dark… we forgot to turn the camera off). Ten points if you can spot our friends Ryan and Leah Stufflebam, who dropped off some homemade chili for us. It was delicious.

Session 3:

The last session! In total, we got about 8 hours of sleep each, drank like I don’t know how many cans of soda, ate a buttload of chips and pizza (and chili). It was a blast.

Go see our app: lend.to, and all the other Rumble apps when you get a chance!